with the latest. reporter: very same questions you re asking the united states, we are asking here in perth, australia. why is the bluefin-21 left alone to handle this massive task of mapping out a section of the indian ocean, the size of chicago, when there are other assets available in the area? we know the bluefin has run into trouble, dive one cut short after about eight hours because the water was too deep. dive number two cut short because of a technical glitch that had to be fixed. that dive lasted 11 hours. dive number three, under way right now, as far as we know, this would be the first full dive completed. we know there are more challenges that could lie ahead, as winter weather moves in, making it difficult to launch the bluefin with conditions expected to worsen in that area. so, with the united states and japan, both saying they have assets that might be better suited to a task like this, standing by, ready to be deployed, the australian government has not asked to brin
custody of the plane s two black boxes. the transportation minister says determining who takes charge of the devices is not as important as finding out the truth. the initial search by the bluefin-21 was supposed to last 20 hours, including two hours down and back up, but a source now says the mission lasted less than eight hours. for the latest, let s go to our correspondent will ripley in perth, australia. what are you learning, will? we re still working to confirm with the joint agency coordination center whether the bluefin-21 is back in the water yet. we know there was some rough weather in the area that was delaying them getting that submersible back in the water. its mission on monday, late monday night, had to be cut short. it was aborted only 29% in. so less than a third of the work was completed. we re told the reason for that, as you ve said, the submersible got down and the water in the area was deeper than the programmers bleaprogram ers believed it was. they program a r
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has said that the ocean s shield find is the most promising lead at this point. the signals they detected in deeper waters were more indicative of the two black box signals. but they are exhausting every lead. and the joint agency coordination center is putting out a press release today, this morning saying that the hms echo, the british vessel is still in the area of the find. they re still investigating, we are expecting a press conference shortly. hopefully we ll get more details on that, jake. all right, erin mclaughlin, in perth, australia, thank you so much. i want to bring in the panel in the latest search for flight 370. david souci is the author of the book why planes crash. and the captain is the former director of the safety for the coalition of airline pilots
concluded that language, language is an issue, therefore, they are pointing a chinese-speaking representative to the joint agency coordination center. but given the fact that china has so many assets in the area, some eight vessels total. you have to wonder why a chinese-speaking representative was not a part of this to begin with. victor? erin mclaughlin in perth, australia. we ll continue to have the conversation about between these countries. richard quest now and mary ellen o tool. richard, let s start with the most recent discussed flight path avoiding radar. does one country know where one country s radar ends and the other picks up? yes, they will certainly know where a country s radar ends,