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David kelly, president and ceo of blue fin robotics the company that makes the submarine that effectively will be used to look for debris, and thomas atsheler is the vice president of the company that makes the pingers as well as the equipment that the chinese were using to hear the pinger sounds earlier on, before this even larger find this weekend. so let me start with you, if i can, tom, and that is the tpl-25, this remarkable piece of equipment the u.s. navy has supplied which has effectively picked up the sounds for two hours and then 15 minutes. is it such remarkable equipment that it ca...

Rep rate. so that's already going in our face. they also heard two of them. there l two pinger, out there. one for the cockpit voice recorder. so that's good. they listened to one of them for more than an hour, which is really great -- >> two, two hours. >> -- so they're not just jumping to conclusions, they must be fairly strongly certain this is the black boxes. >> two hours, the remarkable nature of this is not only did they have the two hours of straight listening but when they turned the ship around and returned, they re-established contact, albeit for only 13 minutes. but that's signific...

>> yeah, david is here. >> david gallo. >> hello. >> david, while you're talking, we're just looking at the picture of the video of the chinese sailors putting the hydrophone into the water. give me your thoughts on the sort of rather rudeimentary way in which it's being done for sophistication of finding a black box. >> first, you know, the tpl-25 which we've all been hearing about for a week or more, is a towed system designed to be towed deep in the ocean. this one obviously they had on the end of a pole. we found out that it's made by benthos, called the dpl-25. diver finger locator. it's ...

Information, but i am hopeful, as i am sure that all of the families are, and everybody wants to get to the bottom of this and understand what happened. so finding the recorders is a very important piece of that, and we need to know what was heard, how long it was heard and what type of signal to better understand if it is the locator beacons themselves. >> and sure. and the analysts are saying perhaps, and also expressing some hope as you are. renee, you are learning new information about the chinese equipment, right? i mean, if the folks had been following this, they know that the big pinger...

Zone we're told has been similar, relatively calm seas, which was good for search crews today, because they weren't distracted by those white caps on the waves. white caps that could easily be mistaken for possible debris floating in the water. even though the visual season is over for the day and planes from a number of different countries flying back to the air base in perth, we know the underwater search, the s.o.n.a.r., is going to be active 24/7. their u.s. navy towed pinger locater behind the australian ship, "the ocean shield" functioning under water listening for any possible signal fr...