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More specifically the indian ocean gyre, essentially a garbage patch overflowing with plastic. the massive current spins counterclockwise. he says that gyres are like plastic soup. >> that is typical of what the material looks like. >> reporter: in 2010, he sailed through the indian ocean gyre, the same search area where the searchers are looking for doo d ed flight 370. >> what we found were buoys, buckets like the ones behind me, crates, consumer goods like bottles and caps and bags and forks ...

That flight 370 continued on for hours after its last transmission. some families clung to this as evidence that their loved ones may have landed safely. that new admission spawned an ever evolving map of search possibilities. then, new satellite images emerged. march 20 and 23rd, australia and france released satellite images showing large objects some measuring more than 70 feet floating in the south indian ocean. march 24th, the malaysian prime minister made this solemn announcement. >> fligh...

Be a lot more debris to spot and they are spotting in those areas and not finding anything. i am leaning towards the fact that it is more in tact than say the flight 447 was in the air france accident. >> jim hall is that possible? i want to end with you. is it really possible that the triple 7 could have crash landed in tact? >> not in my experience. both twa and egypt air had several debris fields. one persons opinion is as good as anothers until we find the wreckage. >> jim hall, thank you bo...

But we can find it. and im very confident. i dont think the silt issue is an issue, you know. ive -- like i said, ive seen debris fields from the thresher and the scorpion where they drop nuclear reactors. so yes, the very, very heavy objects will go into the bottom to some degree. but engines, for example, from the turkish phantom 5 were sitting right on the surface of the ocean. you couldnt have had a heavier object hit a soft bunch of mud. so i dont think this thing is buried. certainly the f...

Tank erupted on twa 800 as it climbed to 14,000 feet leaving new york, the result was three separate debris fields and a tireless search to find all the parts. the same thing could be true in malaysia air exploded or caught on fire. >> because that fire would have lasted for a bit of time in a cargo department, perhaps could have gone through the aircraft, and things would have come out. so you would have more debris along a longer flight path. >> reporter: a hard landing or crash into the water...

Necessarily create a wide debris field. for that, a mid-air explosion is a more likely cause. investigators say when a fuel tank erupted on twa800 as it climbed to 14,000 feet leaving new york, the result was three separate debris fields and a tireless search to find all the parts. weiss says the same thing could be true if malaysia air exploded or caught on fire. >> because that fire would have lasted for a bit of time in a cargo department, perhaps could have gone through the aircraft and thin...

Debris field. >> remember, that water was very, very choppy. it would take some of the pieces and wash it away and some of it would absolutely -- it would have broken it up in lots of different areas and it would have just thrown it really all around. >> reporter: still, that does not necessarily create a wide debris field. for that, a midair explosion is a more likely cause. investigators say when a fuel tank erupted on twa flight 800, the result was three separate debris fields and a tireless ...

The pulse as well as a chinese airplane saying they spotted debris? >> yeah, we havent gotten any comment about these latest sightings of objects, fred. although i do need to point out we have had so many sightings of objects over the past few weeks. we need to have a healthy dose of skepticism here. we were reporting satellite images of what we thought were debris fields but turned out in an area completely unrelated now, not even being searched anymore. as far as the objects go, its something ...

But we were able to identify the debris fields fairly quickly. using remote-operated vehicles, side scan sonar. if they find where it went down they could use to identify the debris fields. we had three distinct debris fields. that was a start. >> how quickly? >> within a couple weeks. and then weather came in, and we had to bring all the ships back in and go back out and basically find the debris fields and redraw the debris fields of where they were. and -- but youre talking also it was betwee...

Aspect or the sonar, im optimistic about that because these are large debris fields. were working 24/7, these machines that underwater, the submarines and the pinger locators, although it is rough. but we saw the seas werent too bad tonight. hopefully theyll get real good progress tonight. its not fantastic, but what would you have them do? sit and wait until something else happens? no. im encouraged with the fact that the wheels are on the ground and theyre moving forward, for the first time, i...