then it was eight days. eight days, i mean, that is incredible. so you were using three vehicles at the time? three vehicles. so can you extrapolate if they were in the right area and there was one vehicle, we should be looking at six months? remember, we re not looking for just an aircraft. you were looking for a debris field which could be hundreds of meters across and it could be something as simple as a plastic cup that tells them this is the right spot. do you think there is debris floating on the surface of the water, just the question of they can t find it? well, i have to come back to the hms sidney, gone without a trace except one raft that shows up i think years later on christmas island, a thousand miles to the north, maybe more. so mary, as an attorney for victims and accidents, what does
australian war ship went down, the hms sidney, not a trace. without a trace. without a trace. and this had 600 men on board, in the battle of the german raiders, there was a battle actually going on off the coast. took them some 20 years to find it? it was just found a couple of years ago. the only thing that was found was a single raft found on christmas island, way to the north, thousands of miles north, many years later. that is incredible, an entire ship going down, and one raft yeah, and they were looking very hard for that, the australian air force was looking for that. for a long time we wondered how do you lose a war ship, without a life preserver and a bit of wreckage on this thing. are the buoys as effective as the pinger locater? because the sonobuoys only go