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From the coast of australia. we're operating at the range towards the limits of the equipment that's available to us, which is the best equipment available. >> in may 2015, after the initial efforts turned up nothing, they doubled the size of the priority search area. >> it is a huge area, and it's a complicated area with valleys and ocean mountains and crevices. >> complex terrain is not the only challenge they faced. >> you're grinding through high seas, strong winds, incredible difficult conditions. >> they've had to winterize the ships so they could keep searching throughout the brutal win...

>> it's six days out from the coast of australia. the best equipment available. >> in may 2015 after the initial efforts turned up nothing, they doubled the size of the priority search area. >> it is a huge area and it's a complicated area with oceans mountains. >> complex terrain is not the only challenge they face. >> you're grinding through high seas, strong winds with, incredibly difficult conditions. >> they have to winterize the ships so they can keep searching throughout the brutal winter. >> it wasn't easy and it wasn't cheap. >> the most expensive search in human history ever.

>> and now the australian transportation safety board is searching again with the chief commissioner martin dolan in charge. >> we have very good techniques for detecting needles in those haystacks. we have high confidence that if we have the right haystack, we will find the needle in it. it is the best equipment available. in may, they doubled the size of the priority search area. >> it is a huge area. and a complicated area with valleys and ocean mountains and crevices. >> complex terrain is not the only challenge they faced. >> you are grinding through high se seas. they keep searching thro...

Tours similar to this. >> reporter: so far they have covered more than half of the priority search area and authorities believe they are on target to complete it by may. the malaysian government has remain tight-lipped on what will happen if nothing is found in that priority area by the end of next month. malaysia and australia are sharing the costs for what has become the most expensive search in history. however, australian prime minister tony abbott has indicated his country is prepared to continue searching, alloyaying the fears of the traumatized families who so desperately want answers. ...

Machines. but the only thing that's big in the sky and the ocean is the sky and the ocean. it is less than a needle in a haystack. it is a pinprick in a haystack. we started with 23,000 square miles of search area. we now have a priority search area of 4200 square miles. it's only being covered by three search ships, one of which is having technical difficulties now. but what we've done that's been wonderfully successful is we've mapped about 77,000 square miles of ocean bottom. >> okay. >> so that's going to allow us to search four times faster than we had in the past. >> well, that's reassur...