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Ocean bed. and that's what the ph, 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 we've got in theater. and you don't ...

We can zoom in to give you guys a better look as it sits here at fremantle naval base here in western australia. the a-frame on this boat is what is going to lower the towed tpl, the pinger locator and lower the underwater drone. both of these high-tech equipment that will search for debris and listen for the ping from the inflight data recorder. they need to in fact the a-frame. they have to make sure it's weld properly to the deck so when they actually get on the indian ocean and drop this wimt into the water that it will work without falling apart that explains a little bit more about the d...

This is australia's largest 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 a...

Plane as part of this operation. the p-8. any other u.s. assets, ships deployed in the region right now to try to help? >> i think the big news for the u.s. navy and its support, we're moving in two very advanced pieces of equipment. one is called a tpl, or a toad pinger located and another is called a blue fin. when we think we have a good point where we want to search, we will deploy those, once again, on an australian vessel under the lead through their coordination. but those pieces of equipment are what most likely will find the black box, if at all, it can be found. >> what are you heari...

Anything, they pick up and go to the next. so they will be moving along in a very methodic pattern to try to eliminate where they're not hearing sound. cross that out and go to the next area. and this is still a very time consuming process that will be hampered by weather. >> this it tpl, this is the pinkpink oiger locater, it's listening for the ping to figure out what happened. but it can only move like 10, 15 square miles a day and we're talking about an area that is like tens of thousands of nautical square miles, correct? >> correct. and it is a slow process. but again, you have some of t...