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Resolution. ive not seen anything of that resolution. this will allow scientists, historians to reunderstand how the titanic came to be where it is. and its also a snapshot in time. the titanic was scanned using submersibles. they travelled the length and breath of the wreck back and forth. they took 700,000 images from every angle to build up an exact 3d reconstruction. the wreck is in two parts. the bow is still instantly recognisable, more than 100 years after it sank. 800 metres away, the st...

She told us what had been found. these were discovered by our nonprofit collaborators and citizen scientists in the great pacific garbage patch. they were small debris items, plastic fragments, up to large abandon fishing nets. all sorts of species — crabs and barnacles, both native oceanic species and coastal species. which we did not expect to find. most of these species are attached to hard surfaces. it would be rocks or boats or dock pilings. so they essentially settle on plastic.

Species living thousands of kilometres from their usual habitats, on a patch halfway between the coast of california and hawaii. it�*s estimated that 80,000 tonnes of debris are distributed over 1.6 million square kilometres. dr linsey haram is the lead researcher who carried out the work at the smithsonian environmental research centre. she told me what had been found. these were discovered by our collaborators and citizen scientists in the great pacific garbage patch. they were small debris ...

Seen visual and aerial imagery, alone, will not suffice to determine whether or not these items are from the wreckage of the malaysian flight. i think to the extent possible that more vessels and more debris items can be recovered and then either identified or basically determined to not be part of the malaysian wreckage, i think will expedite this process and potentially narrow down the search area. >> mark? >> well, i guess, don, looking at the question of the investigation, itself, as it move...

Anymore. >> geoffrey, in your estimation, given this new information, how close are searchers to finding debris that they can confirm is from this plane? >> i spoke to some officials overnight, don, and there seems to be a greater level of confidence about the new coordinates that are being worked -- that have been worked through, using more data out of southeast asia. they werent specific about what data they now had. but they seem to be a high level of confidence. we do know they took photogra...

Given this new information, how close are searchers to finding debris that they can confirm is from this plane? >> i spoke to some officials overnight, don, and there seems to be a greater level of confidence about the new coordinates that are being worked -- that have been worked through, using more data out of southeast asia. they werent specific about what data they now had. but they seem to be a high level of confidence. we do know they took photographs yesterday. these debris items were spo...

There are big gyres of garbage out there. and now comes news theres a second one. what are the odds that there are two very close circular areas of garbage as opposed to possibly a plane? >> yeah, i think thats a great point. as i noted yesterday, certainly there is a lot of debris already out in our ocean. and its not uncommon to find, you know, small areas of where various forms of plastics and other form of floating rubbish aggregate. but particularly building on the satellite imagery from th...

Computer model, tracing the possible debris items back where they drifted from, a huge distance. the current moving 30 to 60 miles per day. >> you heard about the gulf stream. this is ten times the size of the gulf stream. the an arctic, because much its wider and deep. >> reporter: the ocean can be a super highway. one year after the japanese tsunami, debris traveled more than 3,000 miles. this harley davidson washed up on a beach in canada. now its in the harley davidson museum. these plastic ...

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