three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. let s start with that massive hunt for the missing submersible in the north atlantic which is now in a critical phase. fears are growing for the five people onboard the missing vessel, which lost contact, during a descent to the wreck of the titanic. it s thought the oxygen supply on board may have run out. but the us coast guard insists it remains focused on finding the crew alive. we were told they were certain the crew would have slows their consumption of oxygen, extending the time available for the rescue. the search area has been doubled in size, and a french ship with a robot that can reach the sea bed is on site. live now to boston where sumi somaskanda has been following the story hello matthew. that is right. this is a massive search, and you have to understand that the ships and aircraft on site at the moment are scarring an area of around 10,000 square miles. they are also trying to loo
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michael mccarthy was on the team that found the sidney, after more than 25 years of searching. he sees eerie similarities in the search for flight 370. you have an enormous area where it could be or may not be. you have the similar depth of water. you have similar emotions. but the search today has the advantage of technology. if satellite images and search planes can find debris from the plane in time, the flight data recorder should be sending out a signal. but the search for hmas sidney shows that even without that signal wrecks can still be found using sonar scans. it just takes time. mccarthy describes the process. that just mows the lawn back and forward until you finally find a signal which tells you there, we have our rig. and that takes a while even if you know where you re going to go. by salvaging the sidney,
Points. the british contributing the submarine. is it your understanding that this is largely to try to find those pings coming off black boxes? it was my understanding submarines wouldn t have must have to do in the search until they find debris and started looking for the actual crash zone. yeah, all of these things like the towed pinger locater, the sonar scans that a submarine would have, they re not that useful until they can find debris and show the proximate area where the plane went down. if they don t find any debris, the next best step is to bring out the sonar equipment, see if they can map a general area. but that is going to fake a lot of time. it is possible to do. they found a number of shipwrecks in this area using exactly that method. but world war ii ship that they found in that area took 25 years to find. so they re really in it for the
If that doesn t work, there are a number of sonar options. they can use sonar scans to sort of map the ocean floor. then there s the blue fin, basically a submarine. until a piece of debris is found, it s very difficult to use those other pieces of equipment. once they do find the debris, they have to then find the wreckage. with air france, it was spread out over eight miles. yeah. all right. it appears malaysia is no closer this morning to figuring out just what happened. they are conducting a criminal investigation and they ve now taken nearly 200 statements. but he admits they may never know the real cause for the plane s disappearance. jim clancy has that part of the story from kuala lumpur.