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Some hope the fact you're dealing with a sea that is 150 feet deep but a little bit warmer than other parts, right? is there could be survival up to 40 hours. then when you look at the weather system that's passed through this region in the last 24 hours, how difficult does that make it for survival? >> this is a tremendous challenge because as david gallo was saying you don't have tremendous water depth, but those challenges are that you're going to have very strong -- you could have very severe wave action at the surface which is what they've been encountering. you could have very fast-movin...

>> and, david, this shouldn't be viewed -- this move of kind of looking into arrangements with commercial organizations that shouldn't be viewed as nations >> no, nations aren't giving up. same with air france 447. it's just the kinds of people that have the technologies necessary to get to that water depth-in fact, bluefin being operated by phoenix international, i think phoenix international will still be in the mix. at least i hope so. it brings in the academic partners like the oceanographic deomark in germany. just widens the field of people who can participate. >> widens the field of peo...

>> and now you have to start making assumptions. obviously it's easy to perish in a situation like this. it's hard to survive but people often b find that will in these more urgent circumstances. because of the circumstances of the ships is it safe to say as long as there's enough air to keep buoyancy there could be air in the pockets inside as well where people have air pockets? >> positively. one question is how stable is the ship in this position? is it going to be stable floating like this or if the water depth is great enough, is the ship going to -- >> they believe it's deep enough to ta...

>> sure, i can explain that. there's certain abort criteria that the vehicle has as it's executing its mission, if there's certain conditions that occur, it stops and it comes to the surface to communicate better to the team that's assigning it its missions. and in this case, the vehicle's programmed to fly 30 meters over the floor of the ocean to get a good mapping of what's beneath and to the sides, and the chart we have for the area showed that water depth to be between the 4,200 and 4,400-meter depth. it actually, as it was contouring itself to the bottom, 30 meters above, it went to 4,500...

Half and that apparently it has a pulse signal of 37.5 a kilohertz, what is -- what's encouraging to you about this information? >> well, that's encouraging, because that's the secret number for the frequency for the black box pingers, and the rep rate was about right, meaning it makes that noise about every second. the idea it was only heard a short bit, i kind of get that the water depth of that area goes from shallower than 2,000 meters, less than a mile and a half, to greater than 5,000 meters which is about three miles. depending on where it is inside there, i could see that the signal co...