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Legitimate or not. if it goes away, unless they can reacquire it, they'll to have put the bigger brothers of this into the water and go looking, do some kind of search pattern. >> this scans the bottom with sound. it takes long range pictures, a mapping of the bottom, 1,000 meters on each side if it is the bigger vehicle and brings them back so we can locate the wreckage. >> what is that? >> this is where they will emanate the sound out. >> it was recorded on the internal hard drive and you recover the vehicle and you download that data. >> what is this here? >> this is its antenna. on the big...

Things, right? >> that's right, fredericka. when you're running a major crisis, you can set up tfansies grid, search, maps devised by investigators but if you receive new information that has a remote possibility of being credible or possible, you change, you make a change, you do something. the problem i'm having with this flow of information is, you know, right now it's almost midnight in australia. if in fact they got this information in the middle of the day 12 hours ago, lunchtime, they had planes up in the air doing their regular search pattern. they had ships nearby. they certainly it l...

Are based on stuff on the surface. it's still a visual search pattern that we're doing primarily also supplemented by radar searching. so they are start of the art as far as the equipment on board and they are ideally suited for this type of search. it's limited and are they giving you expect to be involved in the search for how much longer. have they given you any time frame at all in the pingers from the so-called black boxes and within a matter of days the batteries will dry up. >> that's right. we've had those reports as well and fundamentally that's not changing what we're looking for. ob...

The ship while we conduct our search pattern. >> it's got to be a very difficult thing for those lookouts to be scanning waters hours on end. do you rotate them through? how long do they stay out there looking? after awhile i would think the eyes looking through the binoculars would be very difficult constantly looking in the water. >> the conditions down here, it's very cold. we rotate the lookouts through every hour. and make sure that they are appropriately dressed to combat the very cold conditions down here. yesterday's conditions were very good for visibility. and we expect that the cond...

And everybody's assigned certain areas so depending on what area we're assigned, we'll do our little search pattern in the search box that we have and report back if, in fact, we see anything. >> so we know two american planes up in the air, a p-8 and the navy p-3. they've covered an amazing area, 220,000 nautical square miles. how much more ground do you have to cover? >> well, it depends on where we get assigned for the -- with the air tasking order from the australians who are leading the search. it's just -- it's just where we get assigned and if the boxes move and the boxes shift, we just...