visibility is better but the search area is the size of connecticut and the ocean surface looks the same. so you are looking for the tiny bit outside of any electronic signal, it is still a huge challenge and as you point out, he s less than two days of air left aboard the vessel. sandra: as far as the next 24 hours looks, we should bring that out to 48 hours, considering this sort of estimate that there might be 40 hours left of oxygen, our experts are telling us it could vary depending on if they are alive in there, the level of anxiety they are having and the amount of oxygen could vary greatly. what is the next 48 hours look like? that s the good news, with this area of high pressure that s moving into that zone, that s dryer, more stable air. overall, particularly for the aerial aspect of this search, that s that s going to be here the next 24 to 48 hours as good as it gets. so, a little bit of hope with
choose to do a recovery operation, given the difficulties? i think it depends on a number of factors. anything that can change between now and then, as far as information response that could chang that, so it s not a hard and fast timer s up, time to transition. there s a lot of factors that go into it that could extend something like that. excuse me, what role does the amount of oxygen play in one of those [ inaudible ] with 40 hour of oxygen left, when would you transition from a search and rescue to a search and recovery? i don t know an answer to that. that s definitely outside. we can try to get back to you. as we transition through that phase, we ll have better answers. [ inaudible ] what exactly are the coast guard facing on the water? weatherwise i believe the weather on scene today was five to six foot sees. seas. what s that mean, the waves? wave height.
could extend something like that. what role does the amount of oxygen play in the factors, with 40 hours of oxygen left, when would you then transition from a search and rescue to search and recovery? i don t know an answer to that. that s definitely outside, we can try to get back to, as we transition through that, we ll have better answers for that. information about the conditions out there, like what exactly are the coast guard facing? the weather yep, actually i have, i believe the weather on scene today was 5 to 6-foot seas. wave height, 5 to 6 feet, 15 knot winds, visibility was very foggy yesterday, very little, no visibility but increasing today and expecting much better conditions from the aerial search perspective. cleared visibility high
have left may give them the window of opportunity that they need that if this is a survivable incident that they could find them. ian, in terms of the visibility, when you think about this craft, it was designed to come to the surface by itself if it encountered a problem. but if you are in a coast guard c-130 or p-8, you are looking at a big ocean, and travelling fairly quickly. this is not a big profile for search and rescue effort to discover. it s not like a boat floating on the top of the water. b bobbing in the water and the glass hatch. will the visibility be good enough that something like this will be spotted from the air? yes, john, a needle in a haystack. and you talked about the gps beacon, that has not been,
take advantage of it, which they did. the now as that storm system has lost a bit of its influence, the coast guard did report that visibility today has gotten considerably better, which is great news, no precipitation expected as we move through what s left of this work week, and the winds, those dial back as well. so as we look at the wave heights, that s push back more into the one foot, perhaps 1 to 3 inch range, as good as you can ask for. we know there are so many variables in play with the search and rescue effort, the weather will increasingly become less of one as we move through what s left of this week. we know it s a race against time. sandra. sandra: all right. yes, remarkable situation, the weather counts, john. john: it does. and as ian says, the weather is going to be good for the next few days, at least the amount of time they have left with the duration of oxygen that they