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Boxes. the air search is resuming now in the smallest area yet with ships crisscrossing the area around the clock. cnn's tom foreman is digging deeper into the huge challenges searchers are still facing. what are you finding out, tom? >> wolf, when you go under water, that's when it really gets complicated. here's one way of looking at it. more people have been to space than have been in the deepest parts of the ocean. and this area with the target zone anywhere from 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 miles down. that absolutely qualifies as deep ocean out there. comparison, we're talking about an area that is mu...

Australia's ocean shield is steaming toward the suspected debris field. the search zone shifted eastward toward the australian coast but it is still an 1100 mile journey. the ship is one day away from the target zone. paula newton is live in perth, australia, with more details on that. hi, paula. >> reporter: hello, carol. as you said, that ship will be on site tomorrow. why is it significant? we've been talking about the expert equipment on board to be able to really detect that ping signal if, in fact, that signal is still standing. they talk all the time about these batteries lasting 30 day...

Expectations of a breakthrough with successive satellite photos with what appear to be not just individual pieces of debris but possible debris fields. now satellites and planes have a new target zone in calmer waters and closer to the australian coast. cnn's kyung lah traveled aboard a p-8 po sidy aircraft and within minutes searchers spotted what could be debris. >> this plane did spot some debris, and there was a bit of excitement. the plane tipped to the right. they got very, very close to the ocean, some white debris, some orange rope, a blue bag, but it wasn't significant enough to say t...

Zone. they're now coming back. we've just been speaking to a pilot with the royal australian air force. they said they are on target for two hours, which is about the maximum they can be on target. they did not see anything. a second australian plane coming back just a short while afterwards. that was turned around before it got down there, though. so, now the search zone has been closed down to aircraft because of bad conditions. a p-8 u.s. navy spokesman telling us that there was severe turbulence over the site. there was a risk of icing on the wings, which is incredibly dangerous for planes...

Try and connect the dots down there, just to try to find a piece of debris which actually links that area, that search zone to the downed airliner, poppy. >> absolutely. i mean, you're talking about a search area about 2,500 kilometers off the coast of perth, 122 potential objects sighted on march 23rd. this is four days later. have the folks on the ground there, andrew, given you any indication of just how far from that initial location that the satellite spotted this debris could have moved and in what directio direction? because of this bad weather, does it just make the search more difficu...