what i don t understand if they already have, you know, more than two hours of these pings that went up in volume and then reduced in volume which indicated they were getting closer then farther away they have a sense of the coordinates of this. if they don t find, hear any more pings don t they have good enough location that they can send in these under water vehicles? already, anderson they cut down the size of the haystack to something manageable. what they would like to do is get it down even further. like commander marks says they don t want to waste time while the battery is still operating. you just talked about this before how the ocean can play tricks on you with sounds. realistically, is there any chance this is a whale? any chance this is a natural
down the size of the haystack to something manageable. what they would like to do is get it down even further. like commander marks says they don t want to waste time while the battery is still operating. you just talked about this before how the ocean can play tricks on you with sounds. realistically, is there any chance this is a whale? any chance this is a natural phenomenon? i have some friends that say it s possible, some biologic noise. it s not impossible that it s biologic noise. also underwater vulcanism in that area. it s a very volcanic area. there s hot vent, underwater geisers. none fit exactly.
but there are questions about exactly what they do mean. i want to bring in now our team of experts. bill nye, a former boeing engineer. mary schiavo, michael kay, jeff wise, the author of extreme fear: the science of your mind in danger, jim tillman, a retired american airlines pilot. also, jeffrey thomas, editor and chief of airlineratings.com, and richard quest is back with me. why don t i start with you, richard. it s been 32 days in this search. the most promising lead so far. but how promising is this lead, do you think? it was very promising last night. optimistic, encouraging, all the words we heard. and tonight, commander marks, i think of the seventh fleet, who s been very much involved in keeping us informed, we spoke to him at length last night. he said he was less encouraged, because they haven t heard anything from this from the last 30-odd hours.
credit, there s got to be something secret we don t know about that helped all of these experts, miles, find these two black boxes if, in fact, those pinging sounds were from the two black boxes. there must be something else that they are not sharing for classified information reasons. i m sure there s a lot. yesterday we were talking with commander marks of the u.s. navy, i asked, was this a lucky spot, what got you there, and he side stepped it, as they do. the interesting thing is, and when this shifted to australia, that opened up the doors to share all kinds of spy satellite assets that the u.s. has, because the agreement the u.s. has with australia, so you know the door s open to those assets, as they call them. and who knows. the thing is, though, if, in fact, what would they see, a debris field, we would have spotted that debris field and known about it, so it s unclear to me exactly how they would be deployed or used, but clearly that was used somehow. we may not find out
i want to bring in now our team of experts. bill nye, a former boeing engineer. mary schiavo, michael kay, jeff wise, the author of extreme fear: the science of your mind in danger, jim tillman, a retired american airlines pilot. also, jeffrey thomas, editor and chief of airlineratings.com, and richard quest is back with me. why don t i start with you, richard. it s been 32 days in this search. the most promising lead so far. but how promising is this lead, do you think? it was very promising last night. optimistic, encouraging, all the words we heard. and tonight, commander marks, i think of the seventh fleet, who s been very much involved in keeping us informed, we spoke to him at length last night. he said he was less encouraged, because they haven t heard anything from this from the last 30-odd hours. and more than that, he said, started to suggest that as the