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With this whole process, angus houston said there is no second chances when it comes to the pingers. when they're dead, they're dead. and that is why he is throwing everything he has got at the pingers, the location, until he is sure for several days two or three days after he gets any last ping because he wouldn't be able to re-create that once they finish. >> we have to take a quick break, more coming up. the extreme ocean environment, more than 10,000 feet deep. we'll take a closer look at what we know. the bottom of the sea in the area. also the latest on the search from commander william ...

Press conference because they're able to focus down on that. with this whole process, angus houston said there is no second chances when it comes to the pingers. when they're dead, they're dead. and that is why he is throwing everything he has got at the pingers, the location, until he is sure for several days two or three days after he gets any last ping because he wouldn't be able to re-create that once they finish. >> we have to take a quick break, coming up more, the extreme ocean environment more than 10,000 feet. we'll take a closer look at what we know. the bottom of the sea in the area...

But since the chinese issued those photographs and announced they found those white objects or spotted them from one of their aircraft, nothing else has been heard. we've seen a lot of debris that's been spotted and ruled out. we saw ocean tankers, and things that end up in the indian ocean because of the currents. this may fall into that category. certainly they don't seem to be a focus of the search at this point. >> matthew, thanks very much. the process now centers on listening for trying to reacquire the source of those two hours and 13 minutes of pinging noises. doing that before launchi...

Listening for trying to reacquire the source of those two hours and 13 minutes of pinging noises. doing that before launching a much longer effort of taking sonar pictures mile by mile of the ocean bottom. we want to give you and explanation of what's going on. we go commander william marks. commander correct me if i'm wrong it's my understanding on sunday over the course of the two hours, the pings got stronger then weaker. did that mean the ship was closer and then farther away. >> at that point those were very encouraging signs and now we're being more optimistic. then a couple of pings gav...

That's not even in the discussion. so, the determination of this coalition of people who are doing this is tremendous. i think those pingers have already greatly narrowed the search area. obviously the enormity of the challenge remains was spelled out by commander marks. >> miles, your take? >> my take is what i like about this site and what gives me some degree of hope is that it falls right at that arc, that 819 -- >> that had already been -- >> draw the arc and there's the spot right there. so that sort of backs up where we are, done it and it validates the inmarsat data and validates what ...