that preliminary report has to set forth the facts. i think a lot of facts are missing. at this late date in the investigation, that s bad. saving face that they might be trying to do as the family members like sarah bajc, she suspects at this point. mary, thanks so much. chris? we know exactly where the sunken ferry ship is but the horrible question in that situation is where are 131 people? many of them teens. divers continue to bring more bodies to the surface. 171 people are now confirmed dead. investigators are expanding their criminal investigation. they searched the offices of the shipping company that operated the ferry as well as the home of its reclusive billionaire owner. cnn s nic robertson is live in jindo, south korea. nic? yeah, chris, right now we got a standoff situation here on the harbor area. there are a group of families here not satisfied with the
sure. recap that for us for folks just tuning in. you have an underwater mountain like the zenith plateau south of the area they re looking at. the scale is distorted because this is a couple of miles of ocean water a couple of miles. yeah. this is a tiny ship way up there and this is a tiny vehicle hanging down by a long cable. this is also much bigger than it really is. this would be a tiny spec on this type of topography. so what we re looking at is the sound emanating from here. most people think the sound would come directly to the listening device but that s not true. this sound is bouncing off topography like this and getting bent around by ocean currents and ocean thermal structures so it s got all different paths that the ocean is taking that sound. many say the ocean does play tricks with sound. i think this gives us an idea. it occurred to me those currents change. so from one day to the next you re not going to have a consistent
answers getting from government officials. they are surrounding the minister of maritime and fisheries. the chief of the maritime police and his deputy, these minister and police chiefs are not allowed to leave. the families for over an hour having asking questions. they re not satisfied with the search. we also here at cnn now heard from a south korean lawmaker who tells us something about t cap people the shape can take. the problem is, according to the lawmaker, this heightened the center of gravity on the ship making it potentially, potentially more liable for capsize. also learned in the last few hours that another crew member is likely to face charges. that is 15 out of the 20 surviving crew members likely to face charges including deserting the ship. chris? harsh charges. we re going to have to see where it goes forward. still can t understand why it happened. nic, thanks for the reporting. we want to tell you about ugly reminders of the crossed red line in syria.
area that was retrodrift fred all the debris we talk about for air france 447 in a place where the plane was and we were told it was. on board the ship every single day people expected us to find that aircraft. every day there was more pressure on the team and some leaked through on board the ship. you knew the outside world was watching and it gets to you after a while. mary, we re being told a lot of the equipment that you and david introduced us to, the side scanning sonar and some of the equipment that that go deeper, probably going to introduce that now. what does that mean and how helpful do you think it can be? well, what it means is that really vastly more resources. each one of those pieces of equipment needs its own support ship. you re going to send down additional submersibles, underwater awe on the moss vehicles, each one has to have a crew and ship so there s more there. some can go deeper and provide more and different pictures than the bluefin and for the 90% that s
items of interest. no debris found. object was unrelated. bluefin searched 90%. will take a long time to do the final 10% because it s deep and unmapped. we t get all that. two issues are developing that we don t understand. david, the first is for you. fatigue. i keep being told by military sources you re not paying enough attention to how hard this search is for those doing the search. not a call for sympathy but practicality. we re pushing it too hard. they re getting fatigue. they ve been out there a long time. it s 24/7. you re limited on that ship with how many people there are. it s not like you can bring in fresh people all the time. they re probably at usually after a month you re ready to come in for a quick break. now, they are probably not exposed to all the media that s on this which is probably a good thing, but in your search for 447, even though you were given 90% chance of knowing where it was, you dealt with fatigue and it changed the dynamic and timing of the s