theories but doesn t have the evidence to back them up and until he does he will not reveal them. i think the fascinating part here is so much hinges on the inmarsat pings. the investigation is bare without the pings and handshakes. so that you can understand how things have come to this position where they are today. you know more about this story, the details, the facts than anyone. than anyone.
the intent of which was never to be discovered. which is interesting, now that we are here and i m hearing what you are saying and everybody else was saying. it is almost we are back at day one. we are, don. not quite at day one but not far off. all we have to work on is inmarsat pings, which we knew about from middle of march. the handshake. yes. and mathematical probability. march 25th is when we knew about that and we have the pings that they have just found in the last couple of weeks, and that s it. yeah. all right. thank you. stick around, everyone. i want to bring our audience up to date on the tragic sinking of a ferry in south korea right now. a press conference just wrapped up in seoul. officials said the captain of the ferry was not at the helm of that vessel at the time of the accident. it was the third officer who was at the helm. also cnn s affiliate in seoul reports that eight divers have entered the cafeteria of the
mission. the intent of which never to be discovered. which is interesting. now we are hear and i m hearing what you are saying and everybody else was saying. it is almost we are back at day one. we are, don. not quite at day one but not far off. all we have to work on is inmarsat pings, which we knew about from middle of march. the handshake. yes. and mathematical probability. march 25th is when we knew about that and we have the pings that they have just found in the last couple of weeks, and that s it. yeah. all right. thank you. stick around, everyone. i want to bring our audience up-to-date on the tragic sinking of a ferry in south korea right now. a press conference just wrapped up in seoul. officials said the captain of the ferry was not at the helm of that vessel at the time of the accident. it was the third officer who was at the helm. also cnn s affiliate in seoul reports that eight divers have
we re going to give this another week under water with the bluefin 21. is that really enough time? well, i think we re going to take as much time as it needs. you know, as jeff said, perhaps the inmarsat data hasn t been viewed by as transparentally and as widely a group as it might have been, but i have a lot of confidence in the two pieces of data which seem to be aligning, the inmarsat pings and the pings picked up by the towed pinger locator. so that s what s focused this area. i think there s an unprecedented level of international cooperation and determination here. i don t see anybody giving up on this. it s a huge search area. this bluefin 21 is apparently doing, you know, 10 or 12 or 15 square miles a day, depending on whose measurements you accept the search area could be, you know, 100 times that big or 1,000 times that big.
even claimed falsely that wood was texting from the island. let s make this clear, the pings heard days ago and the arch on the inmarsat satellite placed the plane more than 2,000 miles southeast of the island. meaning landing at diego garcia would have been impossible. physically impossible, not from where we had that last ping. not to mention the dangers and issues of approaching a highly sensitive military base. they would be scrambling jets at the minimum to go up and find out what aircraft is approaching that base. the idea of it arriving and landing with any kind of a stealth manner and then be housed and have 240 people on the island and no word of that would ever leak out is pretty outrageous. i want to bring back in cnn aviation analyst miles o brien for some information. mi miles, the cruellest thing about