normally youbigger area and zoom in and now we start with a small search and zooming out. this whole search has been unorthodox. as i said before, you start with debris on the surface and you narrow it down and listen for pingers and bring in bluefin that s a very precise instrument. now as you say we re back to the big area. they are abandoning pings they put so much hope on. the australian prime minister said they were confident this was the black box. they are in the broad area but just expanding beyond the strongest ping. they are going way beyond the pings. remember, since they searched the area around the best ping and didn t find anything within that detection radius, that means that something else caused that ping. the frequency was always dodgy. 33.3 instead of 37.5 and that is
regrouping. you know, the ocean shield has been out there for quite a while. it s got to come back. get fuel, supplies. i think there are better assets that have been discussed by other analysts that need to go back in the water. but we need to complete the other 5% of that search at this point in time. mary, i ll ask you the same question. what fresh ideas should we be looking at as our options? the same thing that les said, but i would also want to know, you know, we have heard so much about the fact the ocean can play tricks with sound and now we are curious about whether the 33.5 really were, the pingers, the 33.5 megahertz as opposed to 37.5. so i think in this hiatus, after we finish up the additional 5% like les said, then i think we ought to test out and see if the 35.5 hertz is what we hear is the pinger was losing the battery and ought to put some down there and see how far that signal will travel. and then know how far to go from
cases and so they re the kind of information that in an ntsb investigation would be released in the daily press conference or in the daily briefings with the family. the questions are articulate. they re intelligent. they re right on. there are things as simple as, you know, serial numbers on the black box or how do they know that the 33.5 hertz on the pingers is actually the 37.5 hertz on the original pingers degraded on the batteries. that s a questions that a lot of us have the frankly, that s information they should already have. if they don t, call in help, more help than even the australians. it seems like the kind of help we re going to hear about next will be attorneys. i bet they re going to be filing suit to compel the disclosure of information that s relevant to the families and the data itself. that s what i think is going to happen. well, yes and no. sure, there will be suits filed. as you know, to file a suit
we have completely lost sight of the northern arc. once the malaysian prime minister made the famous 10:00 p.m. announcement that they determined it was the south, we really stopped looking at the north all together. i heard that malaysia had asked kazakhstan if they could set up a search facility up there. i haven t heard back about it. so, great question. mary, question from dale. it says why not drop pinger in area to calibrate detected pings. we know the ocean can play tricks on sounds. should they put a pinger down to see how pings are manipulated in that part of the ocean? absolutely they should do that. they should do that and also put a pinger down that is losing the battery to see if it goes from 37.5 to 33.5 to see if the degradation is right and see how far it can travel. can it travel 17 miles to the site. that s a great suggestion.
route even searched their own territory? wow, that s a great question. we have completely lost sight of the northern arc. once the malaysian prime minister made the famous 10:00 p.m. announcement that they determined it was the south, we really stopped looking at the north all together. i heard that malaysia had asked kazakhstan if they could set up a search facility up there. i haven t heard back about it. so, great question. mary, question from dale. it says why not drop pinger in area to calibrate detected pings. we know the ocean can play tricks on sounds. should they put a pinger down to see how pings are manipulated in that part of the ocean? absolutely they should do that. they should do that and also put a pinger down that is losing the battery to see if it goes from 37.5 to 33.5 to see if the degradation is right and see how