site of the crash. right. and captain wright, know iing t weather here, it s fall turning into winter in that area of the world, you know, i m told the seas can go 20-foot waves. you ve just heard that the current is pretty rapid. how does that change the calculation in a search mission? what does that do to it? candy, in my opinion is what you need is a deep-toed sonar, which covers a wide swalt so you can get a lot of area in the time. so say the starting point the search box, in other words, they decided request which sort of debris they have and where the airliner might have gone down, then you want to get all the assets you can into locating the debris field. beauty of a deep-toed sonar is it s connected to the tow ship
on the surface, you know, seat belts and cushions, whatever it is, how in this kind of weather do you go about retrieving it? retrieve it is pretty simple. you see it, then the important thing is to backtrack where it came from. right. that s where luca comes in. he backtracks where it came from. then that s what you want to center our search on, as far as recovering your equipment, there are many, many ways to do that, picking it up. it s not a problem. okay. all right. listen, i want to thank you both, captain art wright, luca centurioni, thanks for your expertise. coming up later in the hour we will talk with a former red cross minister about how the families of those aboard malaysia flight 370 can be helped to cope with grief and the unanswered questions. but when we return, dangerous fictions. that s how madeleine albright
narrow down the search area for the kind of underwater operations. so the concern is not as much for currents moving debris at the bottom awe at the surface. at the surface. right. that s where having the most intense and effective can disperse it. and you need to be able to track it back to the site of the crash and then that s where you want to focus your underwater search. similar has happened with other airplanes. so in my opinion we still need to find some evidence on the surface. that would make you want to go deeper. right. right. and finally [ inaudible ]. and finally captain wright, let me just ask you, once you have identified some material of this debris and you know it s debris from a plane, be it part of a wing or whatever, if it s
and less saturated fat? it s eb. eggland s best. better eggs. it s eb. joining me now, an oceanographer with the scripps institute of oceanography, and art wright, a retired navy captain who led several ocean ser searches. the prime minister of australia, i guess as close as anyone to the search area, described it as the most inaccessible area on earth. i understand it s pretty inhospitable as well. can you describe to me generally the atmosphere, the currents, the waves, that kind of thing in the search area?