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Launching this vehicle. before send it down. there have been no fresh pings, no fresh sounds since last tuesday, so they decided they might as well go ahead and launch this search, but the area they're looking at 15 square miles initially, is very big, and this vehicle works at walking pace. this is an enormous challenge, and angus houston, the coordinator here, was cautious in describing how this works and the likelihood of any speedy results. he also said but they had spotted an oil slick some five kilometers -- that's about two and a half miles -- down stream from where they believed the ai...

Now, detecting these two bursts of sounds tuesday which they're convinced are man made is giving them this confidence but they're trying to detect more sound and the sound is also described as getting weaker which would suggest the battery life is going in the black box if it is the black box. but if they can find more sound bursts they can pinpoint where it's coming from. that's important because they need to send down a submersible vehicle. an underwater drone to verify what's down there and that piece of equipment is very slow. it operates at a walking pace. which means the better they can ...