area, i guess that is the planned search area where the ships are. the ocean shield, they re actually adding more assets to the under water area adding a british ship. the hms echo, and of course the chinese ship that reported the oppositions over the weekend. and in the same southerly location, also the same inmarsat also makes sense. and while those pings were picked up by a device the chinese were using, it is nonetheless something that you want to check out. and so they are scanning in that location. haven t heard anything from that location yet. i m told by the experts that it it is a separate thing regardless. if they heard pings there it is probably not the same point of originatation as the location where the ocean shield is. david, at this point, do you think they re going to be at this for sometime since they have not heard these pings again
calculations are putting us into about the right area. randy kay, cnn, new york. want to bring back david ga gallow, we re joined by david succi, it is kind of remarkable that they heard these pings for an extended period of time on sunday. and yet there is no debris in sight. i m still confused by that. a couple of theories that are going around in my head is one that it was able to make a successful ditching and that it all sunk together in one piece. that it actually landed intact. yeah, that would explain where there is no debris. and there was a lot of movement. also the columbia university guy, saying if there is debris it spreads out. you would think it would be easier to found. you saw before they found little tiny pieces of paper and things
break. you know, rotating shifts of course. but i m going to jump ahead a little bit and say they have a lot going for them right here with having heard that pinger for so long. and understanding how far away from that pinger could they still have heard that kind of decible. and i don t know what they have received. captain said 30 by ten kilometers. that is a respectable area. a good size, you know, it is large but not too large to search in about a week s time. so that is a very good team out there. they have great technology. he knows what plan he is working by. there is a lot of confidence in what he is doing. does it make sense, david gallow, you said it would take about a week to search the area. i m assuming you would talk about under water vehicles. why not just do that now rather than wait another 15 days for a pinger i m always very anxious to get the vehicles in the water.
water? when i m launching it from the same platform it certainly would. the best use of resources right now again is to focus on that broad area search, that towed pinger locater until we could reasonably rule out that the tra transister locaters are failing. do you find is it tougher as time goes by without hearing another ping? i think we lost you just on the sound, obviously. it is a live transmission from australia, captain matthews, i appreciate you being on. let s go back to the panel. i mean, david gallow, you have been out searching for 447. is it hard to maintain that optimism and is it necessary to maintain that optimism? yeah, i think it is necessary to maintain the optimism on board a ship for sure where the teams are going 24/7 without a
14 naval vessels out there in various locations in the search. all playing a distinct role, looking for debris and looking for other signs. a nuclear submarine is there, as well. all scanning for signs of the nuclear sub. so far after what? 33 days now they still haven t got any verified information of where the missing plane is. matthew chance, thank you, i want to bring in miles o brien, david gallow, co-leader of the search and aviation correspondent richard quest, richard what do you make of this area? they know where they have to be looking. they have already had the satellite data from inmarsat. that has already been refined down. so it is a constant process of elimination. you just keep going out there