it s a wasted life. i look back, i know i was young and wild. and if i had it to do over with, i would there s a lot of things i would have changed. can t do it. i think i m ready for society now after all these years. i got in 37 1/2 years. i still got four brothers and my son and a grandson. my son s got his own business over there in st. louis. he wants me to come and live with him. he said he ll get me a decent job. i can stay with him. i got a pretty clean record now, you know. you get older, you slow down, you know. you don t think about nothing but just getting out there and get to know your son and your grandson again. and cooling out, you know. william earl basset will soon face the parole board for yet another chance at freedom.
frequency. and that disturbs me, but then again, i think this airplane is still in the ocean. on the issue of the pings from the black boxes, i m going to have to disagree with you, as much as it pains me to do that. arthur, you traffic in disagreement. i do. i do. i think those pings were right on. i think that the frequency difference, the 37 1/2 kilohertz which we re all making a big deal about. that s what it s supposed to be transmitting on. it came in lower. i think that s reflective of the incredible pressure where they were. you re down almost three miles. the temperature variations. i spoke to the same analysts, and i walked away with i think they ve got it. and when you take the pings from the black boxes together with the inmarsat data and the radar data, albeit there was some assumptions:00 performance to the airplane, fuel burn speed, things like that, again, it coalesces right in this area which is where they are. it s a large area.
layperson it sounds like a man made noise. do you share the optimism? i do not share the optimism. all right. explain why. well, there is a bunch of problems. one is that the sheer unlikelihood that they would find something on the first try. normally the way you would do it is you find the floating debris and you track it backwards to find the point of entry and then you search on the bottom of the ocean. here we just we were running out of time. we thought, well, the pinger is about to die. let s just throw in the tow fish and see what we can find. and which they did along the inmarsat arc. which is a huge arc. it s a thousand miles long. but it is on that arc. so it s not totally random. close to random, not totally random. here is a bigger problem. frequency is wrong. that an unsolvable problem? maybe not. but the fact remains it s the wrong frequency. here is another problem. when they found these pings. frequency is coming in around 33 instead of 37 1/2. okay.
have the ships zero in on a closer spot to where the pingers would be. i ve seen pings from 37 1/2 kilohertz go on a sidescan sonar of 5,500 kilohertz. i ve seen those pings where we could vector in using that very different signal. arnold carr, thanks very much for your expertise. you re welcome. coming up, ukrainian authorities offer a deal to pro-russian protesters if they walk away. i ll have more on that. also, more on the malaysian airlines mystery. could crews be within miles of finding the two black boxes from flight 370? australia s prime minister says yes. we ll ask our experts. [ female announcer ] with five perfectly sweetened whole grains.
looks like. let me introduce you to james coleman. let s take a look at pinger, because it s smaller than i thought it was. an emergency locator beacon used in black boxes. this is the pinger sending out 37 1/2 kill low hertz sound. this is what s picking it up, right? these are hydrophones. different examples of hydrophones. come in all shapes and sizes, underwater microphones, used in a pinger locator to pick up that pinging sound. reporter: when it picks it up, it doesn t know were the ping is coming from? no, detecting the sound. doesn t know if it came from here or there detects the sound. the sound gets louder as you go that way, softer as you go that way, to localize the sound. let s go inside and take a look at what the sound can look like, how we can map it on top of it as well. i have a hydrophone in water as well. you can hear the once per second