investigating in their area. these guys take a lot of time in determining where to put their assets and had they just don t want to move these ships because it takes a day or two at a time to move them to certain areas and they would lose that valuable search time. so they ve got something still to investigate where they were before but they still want to investigate the latest information that they had from the chinese. tom, we know the hms echo, the british royal navy vessel should be there in about six hours. once it gets there again, we were watching how the chinese were trying to pick up these signals. they were doing it with that hydrophone. what is had this ship going to be able to lend that will help of give us more of a definitive answer? obviously it would have much more sophisticated equipment than a bunch of guys on a small boat on the surface dropping trying to drop something into the water to listen. the listening devices on that
we re going to see winds anywhere from 10 to 20 miles per hour. maybe gusting up to 30 on the south end as that tropical cyclone passes. right within that search area, winds are going to be pretty decent at 10 to 20 miles per hour over the next two or three days. good news there. fairly good conditions. appreciate that. thanks so much, jennifer. 13 ships and a dozen planes are trolling the search zone with some headed to the area where that chinese ship detected pulse signals. joining us now from perth, australia, will ripley. will, when do we expect the assets to be in place? hey, freld. we know that the british ship, the hms echo is less than three hours away from the newly refined search area. they will be joining the chinese ship. this is the ship on friday and saturday possibly detected those pings underwater. they have much more advanced sonar technology. you don t need daylight for sonar to work. presumably, these crews are going to get right in this area,
advised that they had late yesterday afternoon redetected the signals for 90 seconds within just two kilometers of the original detection. this is an important and encouraging lead, but one which i urge you to continue b to treat carefully. the chinese vessel is going to get some backup quite soon from the hms echo. that s an australia ship that has more so fest kated technolo technology. it is on the way to the region to help verify if this is indeed something significant. however, if this possible lead does not pan out, how much longer can the search go on? cnn posed that question to one of our experts. at some point, i have to believe cost becomes a factor. who s going to foot the bill for this going on imperpetuity?
british navy vessel is now rushing to that area where a chinese ship reported twice picking up electronic signals beneath the surface. the hms echo is due to arrive six hours from now. a brief pulse friday and another one saturday were a little more than a mile apart and would be consistent with the pings from the malaysian airliners flight recorders. a separate acoustic noise was picked up 300 nautical miles away. authorities are treating all these reports with caution. this is an important and encouraging lead, but one which i urge you to continue to treat carefully. let s bring in our panel of experts here. we ve got cnn aviation analyst miles o brien, cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes. we are also joined by chip mcchord, retired u.s. navy director of ocean engineering.
chinese ship heard two pulse signals under water. to the north an australian ship picked up what officials are calling an acoustic noise, 350 miles between them. cnn s jennifer gray has more. reporter: a lot has been going on over the past month with search areas, new certainly areas. we ve been talking about this. we re going to try to put it in perspective now the chinese felt like they heard that ping. lets start with the arc, the blue line. that was the original arc. it give a lot of insight into where we were going to search, handshakes, all the talks we ve had in the last weeks. the yellow, the previous search area down to the south along that blue line and up to the north. also we ve been watching the areas in red. those are new search areas. these are areas we re currently searching. if you look right here, this is where the chinese said they heard that ping. this the ocean shield. if you look at it in relation to