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the intent of which was never to be discovered. which is interesting, now that we are here and i m hearing what you are saying and everybody else was saying. it is almost we are back at day one. we are, don. not quite at day one but not far off. all we have to work on is inmarsat pings, which we knew about from middle of march. the handshake. yes. and mathematical probability. march 25th is when we knew about that and we have the pings that they have just found in the last couple of weeks, and that s it. yeah. all right. thank you. stick around, everyone. i want to bring our audience up to date on the tragic sinking of a ferry in south korea right now. a press conference just wrapped up in seoul. officials said the captain of the ferry was not at the helm of that vessel at the time of the accident. it was the third officer who was at the helm. also cnn s affiliate in seoul reports that eight divers have entered the cafeteria of the
submerged ferry in search for survivors. 25 people are now confirmed dead. 271 remain missing. we re going to keep you up to date on this very important story as we get more information here on cnn. when we come right back, how much would you guess the search for flight 370 is costing? i will have that mind-boggling number for you. and later, a report from inside a sub. david mattingly with a unique look at the challenges of an underwater search. hy i got a new windows 2 in 1. it has exactly what i need for half of what i thought i d pay. and i don t need to be online for it to work. it runs office, so i can do schedules and budgets and even menu changes. but it s fun, too with touch, and tons of great apps for stuff like music, cause a good playlist is good for business. i need the boss s signature for this. i m the boss. honestly i wanna see you be brave
fourth bluefin-21 mission has come in, but unfortunately it has yielded no evidence of flight 370. the fifth bluefin mission underway now. it s 42 days in to the search for flight 370. the focus has shifted from above the surface to the ocean below. cnn s david mattingly is inside of a submarine off of the coast of horseshoe bay bridge, british colombia. david, talk us through the challenges of an underwater search. don, the challenge is, it s an incredibly long list, not the least of which being the tremendous depths you have to go to and the pressure you have to deal with going all the way to the bottom of the indian ocean. we are talking a couple of miles down. there s only a half dozen manned submersibles that can actually go down and do that kind of work. this vehicle we re in right now is not one of them. we re at the bottom of horseshoe bay in british columbia. i m with phil nuytten.
as well, so we re only into day 4, 4 1/2 into this search on the bottom. we have a long ways to go yet before we sort of really completed a thorough search of the area where the pings have come from. don t forget, we have had four very strong pings. we had two fade out pings. according to one of the greatest wreck hunters of the world, david burns, he says we ve found it. he s very, very confident that they are looking in the right spot, and there s also a very high level of confidence, off record, from officials who say, yes, we are looking in the right spot. richard quest with me here in new york. the wall street journal is reporting the plane may have been on autopilot headed to perth. cnn checked with sources in the australian government who said their official did not tell the journal that. how does this reconcile with other reports that may have taken deliberate action at this point? it adds some interesting