frequency at which the ping is emitted. but we want to be very careful here. it has not yet been confirmed that ping at 37.5 kilohertz is from a flight data recorder. we know there will be, of course, an effort now to confirm that as more resources are flooded into that area. as long as that continues to go forward. are we taking a break, guys? or keep talking. we will take a quick break as we continue to get some information. we will bring you full coverage with our team all over the world. stay close.
i ve used locaters before and they can be very effective. i can put a diver right on top, standing on top of a recorder of a black box. we ve done it before. but in this case, there could be interfering signals coming out. doesn t have to be exactly the same frequency as the pinger, 37.5 kilohertz. but if there were 50 or 100 kilohertz, that s a frequency these used on sound gear looking at depth under the vessel. i wonder if that might be interfering with looking at this signal and determining it. i m glad to hear it s consistent with the pingers. and i wish them the best. arnold, how real is the possibility that even if they do find out that this is one of those pingers that the aircraft is not close enough, is not close by?
side, thii think the global community with the information that is driven through the coordination cell. that is key when it comes to dissemination, but also release. which information will you release? i m slightly concerned this has come from a chinese news agency. i would like to see corroborated evidence coming from the joint agency coordination center in australia. until we get absolutely something clinical from them, we should be very cautious about this. i also would be looking at the 150 mile tracks. if, indeed, this 37.5 kilohertz has been found on one of those two converging tracks, it is again more positive evidence. we heard about the imarsat evidence with the 250-mile tracks. that is good news if it is
doing their own thing under this broader umbrella. i want to go to ocean search specialist mike williamson. we understand from the australians that they were notified of this report by xinhua. it has not yet been confirmed but they were notified around lunchtime, which would be maybe 8 to 12 hours ago, just an estimate there. at what point in this confirmation process should the searchers be now? well, actually what i d like to insert here before i answer your question is 37.5 kilohertz is the unique frequency for these pingers. for the same reason that that frequency was chosen for the pingers, the 30 kilohertz area is low noise in the ocean spectrum. so it s favored by a lot of different kinds of equipment, a lot of the echo sounders used on
giving a false signal. and it will take it could take some hours, or even a day, for one or two of those ships to get onsite to focus in on what the signal for those joining us around the world, we have jim clancy in kuala lumpur and former inspector general mary schiavo here with us as well and simon boxall, who is an oceanographer. reported by chinese xinhua, a news agency. i want to be clear about what they are reporting here, a pulse detected. a pulse signal in the south indian ocean at 37.5 kilohertz. we learned from our richard quest, that is the frequency in which the pinger, we have one here on the flight data recorder out of a jet, that is the