mckenzie. appreciate that. you have questions about the search for missing flight 370. today's news of a possible signal hard by a chinese ship. har to help us, mrmp, airlinesratings.com. mary schiavo representing families of airline disaster. let's tackle some of these questions. from james, if the pinger locator gets a hit, how long does it take to deploy the rest of the technology needed to find mh-370? miss ski ychiavschiavo? >> it depends how long it takes to get the ship there and get other pinger locaters put there, and there they will be. probably a day or two to get the ship there and they can do it. >> okay. what do we know about the chinese technology and the hydrophone? you talked about this a little bit earlier, jeffrey, but what more do we know? >> don, we don't know an awful lot. we are getting fragments of what technology they have onboard. i don't think we should underestimate the technology they have onboard. they haven't been forthcoming giving us the fine detail of that. this particular ship was launched, i think, in 2006. it's actually the u.s. equivalent of a coast guard cutter. and it has been deployed to the search area.