China plans to send out ships to try to find this new object. In the meantime, the search for those other two pieces of or these other objects, i should say, goes on. Were talking about six planes scouring the area for a third day today. No traces were found, however. They came back, at least a kouchl couple of the planes, and found nothing significant. Weather is deteriorating though in the search area. Australian official says the operation going to continue despite that. Also multinational flotilla forming a search. A norwegian cargo ship is already there. Diverted from its onlial end point. Austral australia, malaysia is spending planes to the planets most remote areas. The revelation of the satellite images came as flight cruise wrapped up, as i said, this third day of searches as they look for the other two pieces that we were talking about. Those spotted by an australian satellite but were in a whole new phase of this now because, as you said, were 75 miles away looking at somet
so grateful to have your company this saturday morning. i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. we re calling it breaking news this morning from china. chinas has released satellite photographs showing a large object floating here it is floating if the southern indian ocean. this is 74 feet by 43 feet we re being told. seen about 75 miles from where previous satellite i m mamgs spotted two other large objects in the ocean there. china is planning, we should point out, to send out ships to try to find this new object. but it is nighttime there now. yeah. and this search will have to resume at least from the air tomorrow. meantime, the search for those two pieces of whatever they are, these two items, go on. six planes scour the area for a third day today but no traces
first of all, it can reach depps up of 6,000 meters or more than 3 1/2 miles below the surface. and it can survey wide swaths of the ocean floor using what s called side scan sonar. they send a sound pulse with a fan beam out to the side and it will travel out almost half a mile from the vehicle. and it bounces off the seafloor and we get a reflection back to the vehicle. they call the process mowing the lawn because it works its assigned grid back and forth before returning to the surface with images captured on a high resolution camera. it s all done at the touch of a laptop on dry land. how do you tell the difference? how do you know if it s a fish or a rock or a plane? you can just tell from the return. manmade objects, metal down there on the seafloor responds very strongly. the team here hasn t been asked yet to help search for the plane in the ocean but if they are it won t be the first time. the remus 6,000 was called on to
image of the object four days ago. ships are headed to the area to continue the search. if we find ourselves in a worse case scenario and investigators need to find a plane at the bottom toft ocean, technology could play a key part in the search and recovery. this robot submarine may hold the key to finding malaysia airlines 370. it s called the remis 6,000 and developed by the oceanographic institution. it ways almost a 1rton and cost almost $2.5 million. they can go up and down mountains that are up to 40 degrees in slope. they are very stable, so you get really good data almost all the time. why would this underwater robot find something even the u.s. navy and search teams for more than two dozen different countries haven t been able to find?
about. could be a family member, we re running late, it could be anything. it could be somebody in china who is going to be meeting the plane when they land and have dinner together or breakfast together or something. so the pilot s report that they often make these last-minute calls because once that door shuts and they re airborne they re going to be in there oh, the cockpit, for six, seven, eight hours and unable to talk to other friends or family on the ground. bobbie, what would you say are some of the challenges in this part of the ocean in terms of searching? we ve seen the planes go out, they re coming back, as far as we know so far pretty empty handed. well, the big challenge that we have in that part of the ocean is the depth of water. we re looking at approximately 16,000 feet of water, which is going to make it very difficult. we re going to have to use the equipment that you showed previously. the equipment that is rated at 20,000 feet of water.