for 30 years, also president of kit darby. in seattle rob mccollum back with me. ocean search specialist and search expedition leader. okay, gentlemen. as you just saw this great technology, cutting edge technology with this ship and with the u.s. pinger on board, there s a lot of hope. rob, the point can t be overstated if you don t have the impact zone located, then some of that technology cannot be put to its best use. what is the greatest hope from the ship once it arrives in the search zone area on thursday. there s not a lot of hope as you heard the leader saying. they have to be on top of the wreckage, the black box not to hear it. the pingers designed to locate it black box in the wreckage zone.
not expected to malaysian airlines 370. why not? i want to bring in rob mccollum ocean specialist and expedition leader. so there have been 10 planes searching today. the australian crew calls four new objects a promising lead. boy, have people been disappointed in the last few days. there has been satellite imagery, a plane who spotted objects and come to find out it ends up being debris or crash. how promising do these objects sound to you, six feet in length? here is hoping. every day we ride this roller coaster. it s hard for people to understand why is it so difficult. i think there s a number of things we can glean out of the last few days. the first, the ocean is a vast body of water. we re used to hearing cliched
can t make things up, you have to relay the situation as it stands. rob, clearly, i think everyone can understand, emphasize how painful it is for loved ones of anyone on board this flight. we heard from an interview earlier last week, one of the loved ones who said she stopped watching the news. it s just too tormenting. you can t blame them, can you? it s a very difficult time. absence of tangible proof makes it worse. in the case of air france, even though it was clear what happened to the aircraft, two years after the event when it was located and black boxes recovered, the sense of closure from the relatives of those that were lost was palpable, quite something to see. so captain darby, i wonder,
miles away from the location, drift from the crash site, it s a very daunting task. i would love to be optimistic. i m hopeful. being optimistic outside the realm. right now we don t have the probabilities to find debris. that s going to lead us a site any time soon. based on everything that transpired now as we entered week four, is it your feeling this plane, a discovery will be made in a matter of months, or do you feel like we re years away and it s going to be happen stance this wreckage is located? i ve seen nothing imminent. we re hopeful. so far we have nothing. rob, to you quickly? you know, we need to find a stop point. once we have a stop point, we can deploy underwater assets to start the underwater search. as the size of that search expands, so, too, would our underwater assets, the equipment used to conduct the search need to change from auvs to more