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The president hopes he is right. >> he said we'll fund plan a and b and c. whoever wins, wins. go for it, guys. >> and we will succeed in this tremendous effort. >> plan a is drilling with tool did dig for minerals. plan c is working with machinery that drills for oil. plan b is using an air percussion drill that normally finds water. this one is made by two american drillers who like jeff hart, believe they can free the miners in weeks. >> to plan to utilize one of the hole that they were able to drill successfully into the mine refuge. >> and follow its path while widening to it 12 inches. t...

What exactly went wrong, what was the second plan, did they have a plan b or a plan c? we thought they were so smart, and here they are only 20 30 mimes from the prison after three weeks. now we hear they're believed to be headed for the -- have been headed for the canadian border. they would have walked to can dat first night when nobody was looking for them, wouldn't have been a big deal. three weeks later they're a few miles from the prison. it's astounding to me. if sweat gets killed overnight we may never know exactly whether they had a second plan, who else helped them at the prison, wha...

And if that's the case, then they do need to get another piece of equipment out there. if they cannot find what they're looking for in less than 15,000 feet, they're looking at all the high probability areas in the search area. but if they determine that it's too deep for bluefin, there are other pieces of sonar equipment that they can send out there. there are several pieces that are tethered that will go up to 20,000 feet. then they'll have to bring that out if they exhaust all the other areas. >> okay. so that could be plan c, d and e, depending on what, if anything, the bluefin hears. mary...

Certainly a lot smaller than what we were looking at last week. no question about it. but getting one extra ping and being able to triangulate down, to make it smaller and smaller and smaller will be a huge benefit. but my guess is that they are now very much looking at plan b, plan c, and plan d for what happens if they never hear another ping. >> miles, we heard from the new zealand wing commander. he said that they have basically given up on the chinese pings. they are not even searching in that area anymore. in terms of the surface, they are looking to the west of where the pings were dete...

What this is broadcasting on, you're not throwing your hands up and saying that's not it, you're saying this very well could be it, right? >> we're on tptimistic, but cautious, we don't think it's dolphins. >> that's a big statement. people have been very worried that's what we could have picked up. 300 miles away you have the chinese picking something up, as well. >> yes, and the discrepancy between what the chinese heard, the equipment they were using, and the inability to replicate it, and also the very short space of time that they heard it, versus what the ocean shield heard, is interesti...