site where the signal was recei received. we dropped a mooring looking into the large-scale appearance of the indian ocean over there in cooperation with the university and noaa, the american atmospheric and oce oceanographic agency looking at the currents and this took us seven days nonstop teaming from perth, so very, very remote. talk to us about what it means when we say nearly 3 miles deep. that seems almost impossibly deep. when you do get to the bottom, what s the terrain like underneath? on the ocean terrain so far offshore, i have not really an idea, but we re talking about 5,500 meters depth. that is just half of the biggest mariana trench where last year, two years ago where deep down the submarines, the pressure down there is so tremendous.
black boxes are taking into account the last that s been taken into consideration. thank you. okay, we go to the foreign ones. yes. on the corner there, please. please. hi. my name is king chi from sky news. in light of the latest developments, have any of the family members expressed a specific desire to go to perth? thank you. this is what we have been doing at the moment, to identify the real next of kins. so, the thing is that at the moment, we have a number of next of kins. we have almost like 500, 600 people. we are making sure to identify one by one to get the power of attorney to next move, because we are very uncertain at the moment whether we still will get bodies in the wreckage and all
been a significant lead in the search for the missing aircraft. as stated by the joint agency coordinating center in perth earlier today, the towed pinger locator deployed from hmas ocean shield has detected signals consistent with those emitting by aircraft black boxes. while they may be a step closer to us finding mh-370, there are still many steps to be taken before we can positively verify that these signals are from mh-370. this morning, prime minister razis rezak had a call from prime minister tony abbott who updated him on the signals detected. according to the joint agency coordination center in perth, two separate signal detections have occurred, 1,650 kilometers northwest of perth, within the northern part of the defined search area. the first detection was held for
have taken before this plane vanished and how the families of those on board are now dealing with this breaking news. good morning, everyone. good to see you. welcome to early start. i m john berman. and i m christine romans. it s monday, april 7th. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. let s begin and welcome all of our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world beginning with this breaking news. up first, the most promising lead yet in the search for flight 370. overnight, a u.s. pinger locator picked up two separate signals that could be coming from the plane s so-called black boxes. one of them lasted for well over two hours. now a u.s. underwater drone is being brought in to find the source of those signals. it s not going to be easy, because if this is indeed coming from the missing jetliner, it s 2.8 miles below the surface of the ocean. erin mclaughlin live from perth, australia, this morning. erin, it s certainly promise but there s still a lot of work
to do. bring us up to speed. reporter: hi, christine. well, they re saying these findings are absolutely extraordinary. the australian vessel, the ocean shield detecting not one, but two separate acoustic events. the first event lasting 2 hours and 22 minutes, the second event lasting 13 minutes, consisting of two separate signals, signals that authorities are saying are consistent with the cockpit voice recorder and the inflight data recorder, but at the same time here in perth, they are urging caution, saying it will take some time to verify these findings. take a listen to what angus houston, the man spearheading this international search effort, had to say at a press conference earlier today. i need to be honest with you, it could take some days before the information is available to establish whether these detections can be confirmed as being from mh-370.