ship. how long do you think that might take? it depends entirely on how further away. if the ships were in the southern section of the search area, it could take them 12 to 24 hours to get there. and in that time, the data could have stopped transmitting. you got to bear in mind, 37.5 kill ahertz, it s a fairly common pinger used in the ocean. so it s not unique. it could be a variety of things with the signal, i d really like to see, as i said earlier, we ve had a lot of red herrings, hype hyperbo hyperbowla on the whole search and it would be fantastic if this is it, but there are lots of other things that could be