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Originally Posted by javadog
The Oz navy pings seem to be more credible than the Chinese pings. I'm optomistic that they will prove to be vaild.
JR
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News conference last night, Oz navy picked up pings twice--once for
over two hours, and again for about 15 minutes. Takes over three hours for ship to turn around and go back over area where search is conducted. Two hour reception included audio and visual records of ping. Ping was strong and gradually faded, as to be expected as ship passed over target area. Everything reported was consistent with pings from the black boxes.
Essentially, the head of the search stated as strongly as he could that the pings were from the boxes without actually saying so, lacking absolute verification. He ended the press conference by stating that another reception of the pings would trigger the underwater deployment of the robotic search equipment which, according to the pings' depth, would be operating at its maximum depth.
This is definitely the most encouraging information since the disappearance over a month ago. Still, all authorities are talking of a
months long operation from this point, even if these are the signals from the boxes.
If these are the boxes, the anomalies of this case are ubiquitous. Finding the boxes without having a debris field of any size is unprecedented. If these are the boxes, it is a salute to forensic investigation of data that was never intended to be used for such a purpose.