Surface Search Radar News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Seventh district chief of response, captain mark fador. welcome back the show this morning. we appreciate you joining us again. we know you have a busy morning ahead of you. that life ring that you with discovered, was does that tell you about your rescue operation? >> what it tells us is it was located 70 miles to the northeast of the vessel of last known position, so we were expecting anything of the vessel to drift that way, so it validates our search efforts. so what we're about to do is today is recalibrate our search effort and look in the most probable places where the vessel could be l...

Just for the night. 33 people were on board that ship including 28 americans. the crew made a mayday call and said the ship was listing before losing contact enroute from florida to puerto rico. hurricane joaquin is moving out of the area which raises some hope that the ship will be found. the captain is the coast guard's seventh district chief of response. thank you so much, captain, for talking to us. >> you're welcome. >> tell us when's going on right now on the search. >> so right now we stopped the flights overnight because the weather conditions are still pretty severe in the area. our s...

Just for the night. 33 people were on board that ship including 28 americans. the crew made a mayday call and said the ship was listing before losing contact enroute from florida to puerto rico. hurricane joaquin is moving out of the area which raises some hope that the ship will be found. the captain is the coast guard's seventh district chief of response. thank you so much, captain, for talking to us. >> you're welcome. >> tell us when's going on right now on the search. >> so right now we stopped the flights overnight because the weather conditions are still pretty severe in the area. our s...

The danger your crew took on to do that. how long could someone survive if they had a life jacket on, if they were as best prepared as they could be in this kind of a hurricane, a category 3? how long could they survive? >> well, our hope is that they are on the vessel still and maybe they have just lost communication, all power and that's why we're not able to communicate with them. and also, it's very difficult to see. we're using a pretty sophisticated surface search radar from this aircraft but there's so much wind, thunderstorms and sea spray that it's just difficult to see. our hope is t...

This is incredibly rather to have a public demonstration like this on the streets of beijing. david mckenzie is there on the streets there tonight. kyung lah is in perth. kyung, what kind of aircraft are up in the air right now and how are conditions in the search area? >> reporter: we can actually hear the turbo props of a p 3 orion right behind me. it is going to take off shortly. the australian military says that representing a number of other countries all zooming to this area right now. it's a variety of planes, some military planes, some civilian planes, a total of 12 planes in the air i...