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Promising leads and surface vessels cant find them? bobby skoelly was on the neighbor vi dive team that recovered wreckage of twa flight 800. >> the item could have sunk, it could have been blown completely off on a different course or pushed some place else and the ship will just never find it again. >> reporter: chinas government released this photo of an object that turned out to be a whale carcass but if any wreckage is found, a drift analysis map can help find the rest of the plane. data ma...

This heat masses where its red, the plane is probably in that location. where its green, its a medium chance. >> reporter: but managing the ocean surf zones have obstacles. why is it that aircraft can look at so many areas and then the ship cant find them? >> the item could have sunk, it could have been blown off on a different course or is someplace else and the ship may never find it again. >> reporter: a drift analysis map can help find the rest of the plane. data marker buoys on those maps h...