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Determined to exhaust the tpl to the last possible second, because they knew this was a very slow process. but they do believe they have narrowed it. the word they used was manageable. it is clearly not desirable, but the area they're looking at now is manageable given time, patience and efforts. >> and david gallo, i keep hearing people refer to the air france investigation which you co-led in the underwater search. and i used to use that level thinking oh, it took two years to find. but you clarified that, a lot of it was getting permission from bureaucracies, getting permission to go on sit...

Patience because of the pace these things move at now. >> rob what do you think? >> i agree. i think the first two pinger locator -- locations, the most promising. the other two, not so much. i think that the key sign that you're seeing in the level of confidence and search controllers or from the search controllers the fact they're using a tactical auv, honed down to a small area, high resolution imagery and a very specific place. >> talk about what they're using. yesterday i spoke with the deputy director for diving for the u.s. navy, and i asked why other underwater search tools have not be...

Programmed for, it goes back up, we send it back today, you just mentioned the orion which is a similar device that i think can go deeper, right? >> correct. >> why not use that? >> it's a completely different load-out. so you're going to have to bring the ship in, load it out with different handling systems and you can't operate orion and an auv from the same platform. so it would be a much different changeout. orion is tons of other equipment. there's a lost challenges to taking orion out there. bluefin, as we set out in the beginning, is a sprint. we need to get there quick and get tpl in t...

Still a possibility of picking out transmissions, even though we got past the 30-day point, we got those transmissions probably seems like ten days ago now. and we wanted to try and get more transmissions. now, the fact that we haven't had more transmissions, well, that could be a number of things but one of the -- one of the more probable reasons for that is the batteries on whatever was transmitting have expired. so that's the first thing. in terms of time frames, once we pull in the towed locator, pinger locator, the tpl, we're essentially going to have to bring it up on deck and it will pr...

The bluefin-21 is deployed? the underwater drone? how small would you like that search area to get? >> in an ideal search if we're getting a steady signal from the pinger, we would continue to use the tpl until we narrowed that search area to where we were confident we could triangulate to within a couple of hundred yards. >> couple of hundred yards, right now they're at a thousand square miles. >> the tpl is the tool to tell you where to begin your search. and at that point you would move out to find out the boundary of the wreckage field. >> is there a potential role for the private sector i...