from the southeast and is expected to bring scattered showers. the planned search area is about 75,000 square kilometers. you may have noticed the size of the search area has significantly reduced over the last couple of days. based on ocean shield s detections, we are now searching a much more concentrated area dho drift predications made possible by ocean detection shie b the smaller area has allowed us to base the search in the visual search area. you have been listening to angus houston, the head of the australian search effort for flight 370.
batteries will eventually fail on the underwater beacon locaters. so we want to reduce the subsequent area we would need to go search with the bluefin-21. right, and we have talked about some of the silt at the ocean s surface there at the bottom of the ocean and a front moving in which could bring some rain. do you know how much time would be left before assets in the area would have to be pulled back or moved? no, we certainly watch the weather as it comes. but really the timing factor, we re kind of factored on is about the 45-day point where we can reasonably say that it is likely the beacons have stopped transmitting. we watched the weather on a day to day basis. but i have no requirement right now to move the ships out of the area due to weather. yeah, want to be absolutely sure that they get this next detection before the battery runs out. u.s. navy captain mark matthews
lead us to the point where the drift is. that area you asked about anderson, i have been watching all day. there have been a cluster of about eight ships all day in that box, and just to the east on the plateau is only ocean shield. so separate from this other flotilla of other ships, i m not quite sure. so they will continue obviously along the line of where they received the pings. they re going to continue ocean shields with the towed pinger locater, but again we don t know how long that will go for. basically they will just make an assessment of when they think they re diminishing returns, or when they think they will no longer get pings, correct? i think that is true, what the marshal said and i believe that is probably the best thing to do at the moment. and of course, they re assessing when to put or whether they can put the bluefin in the
that s what is happening in the wreckage in the area here would have moved with the ocean drift, the currents and waves and so on we are now searching the area where after 33 days the scientists, the analysts assess where the wreckage might be now. we hope we will ools also find something on the surface of the ocean that confirms that the aircraft basically entered the water at this location.submarin limitation in how deep they can
up to 11 military aircraft, four civil aircraft and up to 40 ships will assist in today s search. a modified apc-3 will coordinate with ocean shield in conducting a sonar search in the same vicinity. today a weak front is moving in from the southeast, and is expected to bring scattered showers. the planned search area is about 75,000 square kilometers. you may have noticed the size of the search area has significantly reduced over the last couple of days. based on ocean shield s detections we are now searching a much more concentrated area based on the drift pred cases made possible by ocean