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It will still take a few more days to reach that search area. that poses another challenge, because we know just about a week city hall is left on the batteries. ideal conditions for the battery on the cockpit voice recorder and the inflight data recorder. we have a tpl, a towed pinger locator on the back of this ship. it's a giant microphone that they're going to drop into the water and listen for the fading pings they're emating, because they've been presumably going off now for several weeks, and we only have a month of battery life. if we get to the point where we know without a reasonable...

Debris on the surface or on the ocean bed. and that's what the p-8s -- the p-3s should be doing. it has been delayed, but the maritime surveillance is still going to be out there and still looking for the on top of the surface clues. >> colleen, i wonder if this delay really puts the crew under pressure, giving them about two days before they get out in the area where they think that, you know, they can reach the or hear the pinger before it dies. >> well, i'm sure they're feeling the pressure. but the silver bullet comment is -- has a lot of merit. if you think about it, this is the only tpl ...

In and make sure that sophisticated navy equipment has been installed correctly before they give it the all clear to get out to the search area. it will still take a few more days to reach that search area. that poses another challenge, because we know just about a week city hall is left on the batteries. ideal conditions for the battery on the cockpit voice recorder and the inflight data recorder. we have a tpl, a towed pinger locator on the back of this ship. it's a giant microphone that they're going to drop into the water and listen for the fading pings they're emanating, because they've b...

Use the same ship. they also use it for humanitarian purposes as well. this would fall under that category. what makes it special right now is the fact that it is equipped with this sophisticated u.s. navy technology, the pinger locator, which we can rely on for about a week and needs a more narrow search area to truly search. the reason why they waited this long is they were hoping to have a more narrow area to look, some sort of wreckage to say okay, we found this here. let's look at the ocean currents. let's see if we can try to figure out where this originated from. as we have seen from da...

Naval base on their western coast. the reason we're here is because we're monitoring the movements here of ocean shield. you see it. you can't miss it, really, it's bright red, docked here at the naval base. it arrived here over the weekend. crews have been very busy here. they've been outfitting this ship with u.s. navy technology that we hope is going to really help in this search. there is the tpl, that towed pinger locator. it's basically a giant underwater microphone. you tow it behind the ship and it listens for the fading ping from the cockpit voice recorder and inflight data reporter. ...