right? and that s going to be one of the continuing problems here. and they did not. many of the families, they don t believe that this plane is gone. they don t believe that all is lost and yet they re just losing more and more confidence in the investigation. that can t be good. all right. so, shawn, the bluefin, tenth session. okay? now, i have a source on the military intelligence side. he says that he believes that they are being pushed to search too much beyond the capabilities of the area as they understand it. do you believe that that may be what s going on here is that they re being forced to show progress instead taking the time to think about what to do? well, you know, i m not really sure we have any evidence of that. i think what we have to be very mindful of is that very larch area we re searching, right? and still some area that sun searched. two thirds of the way through this primary area. so, you know, until we get every
confirmation by the bluefin-21 sidescan sonar. walk us through what s going on now. right now the navy with the pinger locator wants to make one more run, and then they can correlate all that information and come up with a location. that pinger on the aircraft is good for, you know, 4 to 7 miles, so right now if that is indeed the aircraft wreck, the location is pinned down within 4 to 7 miles. even if the batteries dry out and stop working, you still have a relatively small area to search. that s right. the next step is to get that auv, the bluefin, on station and send her down. here s what confuses me. usually they find those black boxes, and there are two of them, after they ve spotted some wreckage. as far as we know, they haven t spotted any wreckage whatsoever. so how unusual is it to find a
christi. so, paula, you were onboard the ocean shield, the ship trying to locate the flight data recorder and the flock cockpit recorder after, of course, debris is found and confirmed. what do you know about the resources that will be on this ship? well, they re extensive and i want to say first three investigators from australia here, accident investigators but also what you were talking about before, victor. i want to say it was a sobering visit to that ship despite the sophisticated equipment. u.s. navy equipment the blue fin and 2 plr and from the cockpit voice recorder. the problem is until that search zone is narrowed, it is still quite a long shot to find them. i want you to listen to u.s.