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Happened on flight 370. everything so far is a small piece of the overall picture. pamela, appreciate the reporting. back with our panel. this is probably a dumb question maybe david gallo, is there any value in retrieving cell phones from the depth or probably not? i have been meaning to check on that. it seems like not but it is part of if there are clues to be had it is worth doing. i don t know the answer to that. it is interesting the bluefin searched 90 kilometers which is a small area. yes. we were warned that was what it with was going to be. it takes it six times as long to search the same area that could be searched in a day by the towed ping locater. that was why they were determined to exhaust the tpl to the last possible second because they knew this was a very slow process. but they do believe they have ....
Actually start going under water? because we know time is running out, we don t even know if the pings are still echoing, still going. yeah, that is right, i mean, this is the dawn of day 34 in this search. and those pingers are meant to last about 30 days. so obviously, time running out very quickly in terms of getting more pings. what i guess they re trying to do, anderson, in the same way you use cell towers to try to narrow down where a cell phone might be by triangulation. that is what they re trying to do here, they have four pings now. if they get more they can try to narrow it down even further. that ping locater, it is not directional, so when they get a ping, they can say oh, there it is. what they re trying to do while they can still get the pings is try to narrow it down so they can send down the underwater submersible, the bluefin, which ....
That. as you say that is a massive, massive area. sorry i was saying square kilometers, actually less in miles, down to 22,000 square miles. but when you look at the pings, what they re trying to do if you look at a cell phone trial, you triangulate between them. that is why they want to get more pings. they re out there dragging that ping locater so they can do that. narrowing down that search area. and as renee pointed out in her piece, that is really just the beginning. and it can take a full day to get the data back by the time it has gone down and up. and even if they find wreckage, you have to get the other sub mersibles, you heard from the man, angus houston, he is not given to hyperbole, quite the ....
Several hundred miles further west. why? because if there was any debris, there s been a series of storms over the last few weeks, and that s the direction any debris would have gone because of those storms. now, the flight data recorders might be on the bottom where that locater is at the moment but the debris could be much further west and that s why we see ships in that area looking for debris and one ship tows the ping locater looking for the all-important black boxes. as i say, it is interesting to know the hms echo this british ship maybe heading to that area. might they be going to map and see what they can find on the ocean floor in we will find out. at some point they will have to do something else because the pinger battery will run out. we appreciate that. angus houston said he is optimistic the aircraft will be found in the not too distant future. the families of flight 370 have thaerd phrasing before. how are they handling the latest ....