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joins us from australia. and what about the australian prime minister saying they will regroup and reconsider. what does that mean? if you haven t found anything in the area where you were most promising to find something, and houston basically said it s around the strong the ping that gave the strongest signal which we now know this evening was the second ping. if you haven t found anything in that vicinity you ve got to really seriously question is it worth keeping going to the first and the third and the fourth? and that s when you have to rethink the strategy. jeffrey you are taubilking t source there. is there really a plan b here? look, i think there s a very strong conviction that where they are looking right now is where the airplane is. that s the undercurrent that i get to the number of people that i speak to on this issue.
week. late word just in from the u.s. navy which confirms the underwater search is happening in the area where a second ping was defected on saturday april 5th for 13 minutes. a significant length of time. let s dig deeper into the possibility in spice of the glitches with bluefin it would help to have more in the water. tom foreman has been exploring that angle. the effort above the water has involved dozens of planes and ships going back and forth why not apply that same thing below the water? we have been talking about how this bluefin will go back and forth mapping the bottom with a sonic signal. we call it mowing the grass. why not add another or maybe five or ten or 20 of them? why not have them all work together. if that s the case couldn t you get it done faster than weeks or
21 back into the water. but this is a really critical time in this search operation, the bluefin 21 having completed its very first mission. it scanned some 34 square miles. that area is really important because it s the area that officials have, in part, identified as the most likely place to find the black box. and that is based on analysis of pings according to the u.s. navy, the second ping that was detected on april 5th. in particular, it lasted some 13 minutes. it was the strongest signal detected. now, if the bluefin had, in fact, found something, it is possible that they could fit it with an actual camera. it s using sonar technology now to go down and take pictures of what it s found. but the bottom line is we don t know what their next steps are, and we re waiting to hear from them for that information. john? let s talk about some other dead ends right now. we now know that that oil slick, the sample, they have tested it, and they see no connection to
ping. i think that was a big confidence builder that let them know they are in the right place, the hand shakes from the satellite directed them in the right direction. so i think that is probably the confidence is that they seem to be in the right place. and their clues so far are panning out. so that is my take on why they were confident about where they are. mr. ginsberg, there are questions about the role that the hms nuclear sub is searching in the area. the second ping that was detected saturday april 5th for 13 minutes. that was considered the most promising ping because of its sound quality. paul, what do you know if anything about that? well, i know they have been searching in this 17-mile radius area, that we expect the amplitudes will be different because of the currents and so forth. we talked before about the