sea level, the titanic. where it still rests today. turned upside down and 14,400 is where you hit the iconic peak of washington state s mt. rainier. only after all that would you reach the spot search teams believe the pings are coming from. 14,800 feet into the abyss. if that doesn t capture the magnitude of this search, imagine what one oceanographer described to ed for us. picture yourself standing on top of one of the highest peak ps of the rocky mountains looking all the way down and trying to find a suitcase, in the dark. uh-oh. not good. got a lot of failures. a problem. reporter: only a handful of problem have traveled to these staggering depths or even beyond. one is movie director james cameron using a state-of-the-art vessel, he dropped 35,000 feet or about seven miles to the deepest place on earth.
resources. reporter: the many governments engaged in the search already own these assets, including ships and planes. one way to look at this, at least, as an extended high-stakes training exercise. joe johns, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. how will cost factor into the next stage of the search for flight 370? bring back our panel. mary schiavo, rob mccollum, captain bob gurley and bob francis, welcome back. there is reportedly a massive insurance policy on the malaysian airlines as well. we understand somewhere in the realm of about $1 billion. and in what way will this money be used, perhaps, mary, to help reimburse some of these dozens of countries that have invested hundreds of thousands, if not millions? well, technically there are several different policies on the aircraft. there s a liability policy, usually about $1 billion, to cover the losses of the
to find the senate again? the prime minister said it s fading rapidly, and that could indicate the battery s powering the pinger are already dying or may already be dead. the pings were first heard last saturday and then again on tuesday, but nothing has been heard since. on saturday, four team ships and ten planes involved in the search more nan 1,000 miles off the coast of australia focusing in on an area about the size of massachusetts and connecticut combined. let s start in perth, australia for the latest on the search. matthew chance is there. what is the focus of the search right now and how is that expected to change, perhaps, in the coming days? well, the focus of the search, fredricka is that area of 16,000 square miles. about 1,000 miles off the coast of western australia, where t the the various ships that are engaged in this search are carrying at their measurements
on the other hand, there are a lot of really smart people that have been working on this, and somebody may come up with a way to to further identify exactly where it is, but i think it s going to be as it was with air france, and we don t have anywhere near the advantage with this that we had with air france. i think it s going to be a long, long trek. huh. are you encouraged by anything that you hear in the realm of the submersibles, auvs, all that is potentially being made available for this search that perhaps those means are the only ways in which to find any wreckage, if indeed, it is under water? i think it s terrific what people have volunteered, basically the state-of-the-art worldwide has been volunteered and is going to be used. the question is whether this is sufficient to do it very quickly, and i would doubt that.
the glass boxes. then the greater the cost, the more likely we ll get legislative and regulatory change. we should keep track of these bills. they could come in handy for forcing change. thank you all. appreciate it. more on the investigation into the search for this missing plane, but next, if you ve ever sent an e-mail or used a cell phone, you could be a victim of the internet bug called heartbleed. what to do to protect yourself. next. you get to a fire scene and the firefighters are there to put out the fire. the salvation army and red cross assist the people once the fire is out, but there just wasn t anyone there to help the other part of the family. i would see how upset the people were about their animals. you know, where is my pet?