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Technology that now has an active role in trying to solve this mystery, the mystery of flight 370. >> reporter: this high tech listening device can glide along near the bottom of the sea at about 1,000 feet from the ocean floor. it's a u.s. navy hydrophone or underwater microphone called a towed pinger locater. search teams are counting on it to find the pinger mounted directly on the black boxes from flight 370. but time is running out for the pinger's battery life. >> what they're trying to do is get ears in the water while the pinger is still going. >> reporter: this is the sound it's liste...

That sophisticated technology, the tpl, the submarine in place and then the ship that's using s.o.n.a.r. equipment as well, all that technology is just fine, but it needs a more narrow search area than what we have right now. the search area needs to be about 100 times smaller for this technology to effectively locate possible debris. and those are answers we simply don't have right now. >> will ripley, off the coast of perth in australia. ahead at this hour, our viewers have been tweeting, you the viewers tweeting questions about the missing plane. we'll put those questions to our experts t...

Information that came in through last night i do not have any significant developments. >> the hms echo we understand is now conducting a specific search, we're told. what exactly does that mean, a specific search? and why now? do they have any information that's letting them close in on a certain area? >> well, right now we are making the best judgment call we can based on the life running out of the black box. so the echo is out there. we also moved the ocean shield with cooperation with the australian government that has the tpl, the towed pinger locater and the blue scan the sonar side. so...

I know how it sounded. it didn't sound particularly -- didn't inspire confidence. but i know just what he means. that lacking any shred of evidence on the surface or the pings, you're hoping against hope you're going to put a vehicle in the water and hear something or find something on the surface. you can't take anything away from the dedication of those teams. they've got to be exhausted by now and yet they keep going because they understand the importance of finding that aircraft. >> i'm sure they're doing whatever they can, david gallo. is there one piece of this equipment, towed pinger lo...

Satellite images, all of those turned out to be "other things." our matthew chance is live in perth, australia, for us this morning. matthew, i know that they have a submarine, and then they also have two ships that are equipped with this high-tech gear out on the search now. what is the latest? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. the latest is that this subsurface phase of the search operation has really gotten under way with the presence of that british nuclear submarine the "hms tireless." it's equipped with underwater detection technology, but also with two surface vessels as well. again, one...