by hoping to identify either hear the ping or first get a debris field. if we get a debris field then we are likely to get a ping, maybe. assuming there isn t a whole lot of drift. once we get a drift blue ping 21 to go look for it? again. if we don t hear that ping we will still go see blue ping 21 to map that bottom. thank you. joining us is hank whitmore and underwater search expert colleen keller. let me go first to you, hank. the new information tonight about the words coming out of that cockpit. i don t know, is it profoundly different although i think there is probably a lot of frustrations on everybody s part that the malaysian government led us to believe it was one set of words and now it s something different and we were told it was the co-by hot who uttered them and now we don t know who resulterred them. make any difference at all in this investigation? i don t think there is any substantive difference in the way the words are used. the only thing that seems to mak
speck but might get another 10 days out of them. as the batteries die off the signal becomes weaker and you have to get closer to detect it so it s a tradeoff. how about, colleen, i assume the depth of the water makes a difference. the deeper it is the farther away it is to send out the signal. how about the temperature of the water? does that make any difference at all in terms of battery life and in locating this? the batteries are designed to be in a wide range of temperatures. i don t think that would have such a significant factor and the temperature of the water would effect maybe the sound transmission somewhat, but that s not really an issue. the depth is an issue. they have to put the tpl down right on top of the bottom to get the best chance of being close enough to detect the signal. and that means there is a lot of line reeled out and it s low jess stick, takes a lot of time to real it out and real it back in. if we are beyond the ping and the blue fin 21 has to locat
by hoping to identify either hear the ping or first get a debris field. if we get a debris field then we are likely to get a ping, maybe. assuming there isn t a whole lot of drift. once we get a drift blue ping 21 to go look for it? again. if we don t hear that ping we will still go see blue ping 21 to map that bottom. thank you. joining us is hank whitmore and underwater search expert colleen keller. let me go first to you, hank. the new information tonight about the words coming out of that cockpit. i don t know, is it profoundly different although i think there is probably a lot of frustrations on everybody s part that the malaysian government led us to believe it was one set of words and now it s something different and we were told it was the co-by hot who uttered them and now we don t know who resulterred them. make any difference at all in this investigation? i don t think there is any substantive difference in the way the words are used. the only thing that seems to mak
speck but might get another 10 days out of them. as the batteries die off the signal becomes weaker and you have to get closer to detect it so it s a tradeoff. how about, colleen, i assume the depth of the water makes a difference. the deeper it is the farther away it is to send out the signal. how about the temperature of the water? does that make any difference at all in terms of battery life and in locating this? the batteries are designed to be in a wide range of temperatures. i don t think that would have such a significant factor and the temperature of the water would effect maybe the sound transmission somewhat, but that s not really an issue. the depth is an issue. they have to put the tpl down right on top of the bottom to get the best chance of being close enough to detect the signal. and that means there is a lot of line reeled out and it s low jess stick, takes a lot of time to real it out and real it back in. if we are beyond the ping and the blue fin 21 has to locat