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preparation h. get comfortable with it. going back to enormity of that big floating garbage patch, this is what president trump said today on the spending bill. it became so big because we need to take care of our military and because the democrats who don t believe in that added things that they wanted in order to get their votes. it became so big, became so
floating garbage. recently, a chinese ship in search of the airport came across trash instead. even sea life can t tell the difference. fish, sea lions, birds, they all ingest this junk thinking it might be food. you know, i hear this talk about there being 300-plus pieces from the aircraft. there are 300,000 plus pieces of trash already there. reporter: the indian ocean gyre is not the only one that exists, there are also two in the pacific and two in the atlantic. they form when ocean currents bounce off the continents and create a vortex of swirling water, which pulls the debris from the shores to the center of the ocean. the gyre in the indian ocean is thought to be about 2 million square miles. keep in mind the entire united states is just under 4 million square miles. and this garbage patch is not just huge, it is on the move, traveling about half a mile per hour or about 12 miles per day and it may be carrying parts of the plane with it.
and this garbage patch is not just huge, it is on the move, traveling about half a mile per hour or about 12 miles per day and it may be carrying parts of the plane with it. it has moved away from the crash site, moved 150 miles by now. and it dispersed, as well. and it is joini inin ining back other debris. reporter: leaving the search planes to try to catch up. randi kaye, cnn. and we have a short break coming up, set your dvr so you never miss a show, you up next, the tools used to take the search farther and deeper, we ll show you where they are and where they are sent to. and later, coming up, the veterans, we owe them a great debt, and a new story reveals how badly promises were broken to patients. including this one s father-in-law. they called you and said.
oceanographer at the university of new south wales in australia joining us via skype tonight. you are an expert in this part of the indian ocean. have you been surprised by the amount of ocean debris found, versus a lack of debris found from the plane? no, not at all. we have known a long time that especially the recent search area, the new search area they are looking at now there s a lot of debris there because it is close to what we call the garbage patch and that s where all of the garbage accumulates. there are five in each basin and one in the indian ocean. everything that has been thrown in the ocean, the last 50 years in the last 50 years and still floating is somewhere in this garbage patch. how do those patches form and is it possible at all to clean them up? they form essentially because the water, the movement of the water is not two dimensional. the water doesn t stay at the