About 12 months to complete. in addition, the search effort will include equipment provided by malaysia, which includes vessels fitted with search equipment, including towed sonar systems which will be used to search the sea floor. public request for tender has been issued seeking a primary contractor to bring together the equipment and vessels which will carry out the search. they will be directed by the australian transport safety bureau, from the operations center in cambra. can i emphasize again that this search is a major undertaking. we are optimistic that the capacity and the time that ez now been available to more carefully scrutinize the information that s been available from the satellite and indeed other information at our disposal, that this site is the best available and most likely