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The signal strength will become less which means that the range will start to decrease. >> okay. the detection range starts to decrease. all important information. so i want our panel to ask you some questions, jeff, but first, let's go ahead and get their take on these latest developments. with us now cnn aviation correspondent richard quest, analyst miles o'brien, and cnn an looalyst david gallow is on phone with us. at the director of special projects at woods hole oceanic institution. what do you make about these pulses the chinese state media is reporting about. we sort of learned not to ...

Too much noise. that might be why they use the inflatable vessel. are you familiar with that device and is it practical, is it logical to assume that they might have heard anything from it given the fact that it is not supposed to be used precisely this way? >> yeah. well, that's the first i heard it was a benthos device. they're our neighbors on cape cod. i certainly can find out fairly easily enough. i know many benthos engineers. i'm going to use the word surprised. i would be surprised but at this point can't really discount anything, but i find it -- it's unusual if they would be using th...

Helicopter pilot with the british royal air force, with experience in flying around the world. tim, at which stage in regard to the malaysian flight with someone of your expertise get involved. of course, the breaking news this morning, is the satellite i am imagery. is that enough for you to be in the case? >> i think we need to find more surface debris so we can calculate a better search. we are looking at water depth of 3,000 meters to 5,000 meters. the challenge is enormous. the search based on one satellite image could take years. >> how would it compare to your work with regard to air fr...

Being in a remote area like this, makes it more difficult to get spare pots. they don't have very much time on site once they get out there. it's just a very isolated area. and it's not going to be an isolated area for anyone for that matter. >> what happens when they find it, and what type of equipment do you have, and what do you do to get don there to try to find out what happened? >> they're assuming the wreckage has been found, and then positively identified, typically, what you would -- i guess initially, what you would use, maybe an awe taken mouse underwater vehicle, so you can get an ...

Difficult. an expert in all things under water, he was closely involved in helps to spearhead the search, of flight 447 which crashed taking off towards paris. david, that was found in 13,000 feet of water. do we know approximately how many thousands of feet of water this is, and what happens even if this is debris from the flight. and that is a very big if at this point. what happens next? >> if they're inside the search box that i have seen, the water depth there ranges from about -- i know in meters -- 2500, 7500 feet down to 4,000 meters which is on the order of two and a half miles. so --...