station. the airplanes go out, they ve got two hours on station because they re an hour closer each way. i m optimistic we ll find something in this area if it s there. hopefully we ll get hands on pieces of airplane in the water that confirms at least now we know the general vicinity. it s time to bring the submersible in to do the tough wo work underwater. we have the northern corridor for so long. it seems clear that nothing was going on up there but there still were assets up there. do you think it s smart to move the focus only on this new area? i wouldn t say smart or dumb. i would say it s more about managing resources. they have a high confidence level in the fact that they ve got this new search area so much so that they ve taken all
important. it s nice to fly over it, but nothing like a ship pulling up and somebody in a boat pulling something out of the water to confirm we are in the right location. i assume all the satellite data, that was going to be thrown out the window with the shift in the search area. officials are saying that s not so much the case. do you believe that? yeah, absolutely. if you look at the math, now what you re talking about is a shorter distance which brings those points closer together. if the arc is slightly like this, as you get closer together, the arc gets sharper and closer. interesting. and one also interesting fact coming out this morning, david funk, this is coming from this working group. many international organizations
the waters there reaching depths of about 2 1/2 miles. it needs to be continuely adjusted. and the likely drift of any wreckage floating on the ocean surface. reporter: the full search back on today after yesterday s weather. dedicated to the search, ten aircraft and six ships from six countries. australia also shifting their satellites to focus cameras on the new search area. we will put data marker buoys so that we know with accuracy where the water is moving. that provides us the best way to keep the search area confined. reporter: reporters ask if the previous search zones were a waste of time. this is the normal business of search and rescue operations.
refined analysis take you to a different place. i don t count the original work as a waste of time. reporter: i think it s important to note from the malaysian press conference that the objects previously identified, five of them in all, could still be valid. they could have floated given the drift of the oceans up into that search zone. they did say they could have traveled hundreds of miles since the satellite images were taken. the search area now continues to move it seems day by day. andrew, thank you so much. let s talk more about this dramatic shift in the search. joining me now, a cnn safety analyst. he s also a former faa inspector. and david funk. good morning. a new day, a new shift in the
malaysia they re saying it could be drift. so i think we need to give them the benefit of the doubt on that part that they are they re basically they re basically concentrating everything on the new zone. one area here that s interesting, you say they think the point of impact could be here. crash point. if the crash point is here, the currents here are not as strong as you said. so the debris may not have drifted as far from this area so it might be easier for them to trace back to where the black box is. the implication from what we heard last night, 1:00 eastern time is when they were talking about it, the implication being was the amount of drift would not be that great. they say that i have accounted for it, but they kept talking about this new area as being the point of impact, the crash point. and therefore, you take your choice the french, the chinese, the japanese and the thais also.