together, would they not. should expectations be high or low for that level of cooperation? i think they will have that level of cooperation based on what we saw the equipment, chinese equipment that found the pings, it was pretty rudimentary. they need that ship, the british echo, because finding the pings and hearing the pings is a tiny part of what you ve got to do. then you ve got to find where the source of the pings are, find the location of the black boxes, get down there and map the floor, then call in the resources to decide now what do we do to bring it up, get a submersible, get the black box up if it s still in parts of the plane. what they did, if it s what they have done, they found it, it s very, very important. now the heavy lifting begins. you need several nations to help you do the heavy lifting. rob, this is your area of expertise, in fact, if we re talking about pulses are detected again and sound as
are not many limitations you can find it. the chinese vessel did duplicate the 37.5 gigahertz. you are talking about this section of the ocean 20,000 feet. if indeed a pinger or pulse is detected that is now in the area, give me an idea of how and by what means would the exploration go to those depths. you have been in depths like this. explain what would be in store. there are two ways to get to these depths. you can use a remote operated vehicle, an rov and you would need a work class rov which would go down on the end of a tether, the tether provides
in 2009 it passed right over the box from flight 447 in the atlantic. in that case the pinger locater failed to find the pinger. they said that s because the pinger had broken off from the black box. it might have been damaged. three other cases success, egypt air crash in the atlantic in 1999 and air crash of adam air jet off indonesia. the black boxes were found by search areas were small. malaysia air is the fifth attempt and still a long shot. we have nothing to use. it s a better shot on the indian ocean. an official from the manufacturer expresses confidence telling us if that pinger on malaysia airlines 370 is working and they are searching in the right area, they will find it. the pinger locater will speak for itself. a new ship with equipment is