on scene or close to being on scene. retired us navy captain armon joins us with the latest on search and rescue but first to matt finn on how crews are working to find the source of underwater noises that have been detectd the. matt good evening. good evening trace. the u.s. coast guard says a canadian surveillance plane picked up some type of underwater sounds yesterday and again today. but a coast guard captain says they cannot confirm reports that those sounds were happening in 30-minute intervals and also could not confirm those sounds were banging or tapping. the coast guard captain says the recordings were turned over to the u.s. navy for analysis and underwater robots were sent to the area where those sounds came from. an ocean science expert, who s assisting the coast guard said the noises sound like banging but could have come from various sources including a nearby ship. tonight some of the world s best data analysts are determining whether the sounds might have
on scene or close to being on scene. retired us navy captain armon joins us with the latest on search and rescue but first to matt finn on how crews are working to find the source of underwater noises that have been detectd the. matt good evening. good evening trace. the u.s. coast guard says a canadian surveillance plane picked up some type of underwater sounds yesterday and again today. but a coast guard captain says they cannot confirm reports that those sounds were happening in 30-minute intervals and also could not confirm those sounds were banging or tapping. the coast guard captain says the recordings were turned over to the u.s. navy for analysis and underwater robots were sent to the area where those sounds came from. an ocean science expert, who s assisting the coast guard said the noises sound like banging but could have come from various sources including a nearby ship. tonight some of the world s best data analysts are determining
the number of search vessels is expected to double from five to ten by tomorrow morning. trace: it has captivated the country matt finn let s bring in retired navy captain and expert armon kirdy. great to have you the. we don t know if it s banging or tapping. do you think the search teamings focus too much on the noise and not so much on other things and the noise may have been detrimental? your thoughts. good evening trace right now it s the only lead we have. they can do two things at once, as mentioned analyze the recording to determine whether it was manmade or natural signal trying to triangulate to see if it was heard by more than one platform and looking for that while at the same time they can be listening in other parts of the ocean. the surface vessels can be using their radar, the c 130s out there can use their radar and visual searches. so it s all of the above at this point. trace: right now a vessel