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Then maps the bottom of the ocean floor and really is looking for wreckage. but that really moves at a walking pace and is a tedious situation. you really have to go down and get whatever it is they could see. this could take weeks even if they are in the right spot. anderson. >> yeah, michael holmes, i appreciate the update. and all the pings, and the wreckage cell, the call to what comes next when a debris field is actually located. now, in a moment we'll show you just how truly deep the ocean is and the challenges conducting the recovery operations. first, i want to focus on the latest news...

Out of life, but the more signals they can get the better they can pinpoint precisely what's coming up from the sea bed which, don't forget, is almost three miles down. next thing they want to do is deploy a submersible vehicle, a kind of drone to put down there and take a look. it's a walking pace and incredibly slow and the area they have at the moment is very large. it would take weeks if are the drone to search that, but the more of the signals they can get, the more they will be able to narrow that down and that is good news and if it is confirmed yet another pointer and they'll be lookin...

I want go to perth, australia, the base of the operation of the search. michael holmes is on the scene with more. what's the latest there, michael? >> reporter: yeah, we're going to have the search planes out again. more than a dozen of them, wolf. they'll be leaving in the sectithefection few hours. also, those ships, again, are going to be scouring the ocean today. something rene mentioned is really interesting. ocean shield joined now, we reported this to you yesterday, that it was headed to the ocean shield area. the search area where they've been getting these pings. now, hms echo, it's a...

Looking for wreckage. but that really moves at a walking pace and is a tedious situation. you really have to go down and get whatever it is they could see. this could take weeks even if they are in the right spot. anderson. >> yeah, michael holmes, i appreciate the update. the new pings and all they imply about locating the wreckage, a call to what comes next when a debris field is actually located. now, in a moment we'll show you just how truly deep the ocean is and the challenges conducting the recovery operations. first, i want to focus on the latest news about the pings and the scramble to...

They know they're racing against the clock. seems to take a long time for them to make passes. why? >> and i will show you. bring out and you will see the tpl, the towed pinger locator. bearing in mind this has been 3,500 feet below. it is towing that much stuff behind it. it can't stop. if it stops the tpl will sink to the bottom. >> right. >> so it has to keep moving. it is moving, according to angus houston, at walking pace. so the interesting part about it is it takes about six hourses to do a sweep, a turn, and a sweepback again. if you look at the timings of these two, we got the timings...