this is drawing attention to something that is largely an invisible issue for most people. the indian ocean garbage patch wasn t discovered until 2010 by groups going across the ocean to see if there was a garbage patch there. similar to a fairly well known garbage patch called the great pacific garbage patch. the cargo containers? i came up from philly on a train, and you see them along i-95 stacked. i m reading a tremendous number of them fall overboard? they re a part of the garbage picture you re describing? right, exactly. cargo ships, cruise liners and again, just about every river in the world drains into an ocean and it s full of carrying everything in that river into the ocean. mark, thank you very much, peter thank you as well, we appreciate you having been here. congratulations and good
break down as rapidly as say paper or oregon beganic this is why when i go to trader joes, i have my own bag now? absolutely. we re talking about those bags coming back to haunt us? those bags, children s toys, anything you can think of that s made of plastic, if you look around your house or office, just imagine how much of that is plastic. where is it coming from? are some countries worse polluters than others? it s difficult to say what the source is of these vast garbage patches. some countries produce more waste than others. some waste comes from cruise lines or cargo ships. it tends to come from all of us since all of us use plastic and throw it away. are you surprised that by now three plus weeks into this, that garbage, debris from the plane has not yet come ashore to some land mass? given the nature of the ocean
yeah, sean, this is not very hopeful. but oceanographers say they have something called a gire, as basically a toilet bowl that doesn t touch. so basically circulating rotating water. some environmental lists say this is like a garbage patch in the sea. where the surface is, the edge of the indian ocean. all right, next question, the black box locater has been sent on an australian ship for the plane, just really quickly tell us what that is. okay, this can be towed behind the ship to basically listen for the ping from the black box. so only as long as the black box supposed to ping only for 30 days. we got to change that, by the way, right? based on yeah, that is based on the batteries. now, keep in mind again this whole search area is based on the data given to us from malaysia. and today as you know malaysia reported that that last known communication was even wrong,
best people you can, and with radar, studying it, much of it is technological, a lot of it is art. knowing what to look for, particularly in this situation, where you had the transponder turned off, and you were dealing with raw primary returns. let me bring into this conversation mark anania. you said this is like looking for a needle in a garbage patch. i have been amazed time and again at these reports, oh, no, this was just garbage, in terms of how much garbage is in the ocean. speak to that issue. well, we re finding out every day just how much more garbage there is, not only in the indian ocean, in the north pacific, the south pacific, the north atlantic and south atlantic and dozens of other areas. what kind of garbage? most of it tends to be plastic, because plastic doesn t break down as rapidly as say paper or oregon beganic
yeah, sean, this is not very hopeful. but oceanographers say they have something called a gire, as basically a toilet bowl that doesn t touch. so basically circulating rotating water. some environmental lists say this is like a garbage patch in the sea. where the surface is, the edge of the indian ocean. all right, next question, the black box locater has been sent on an australian ship for the plane, just really quickly tell us what that is. okay, this can be towed behind the ship to basically listen for the ping from the black box. so only as long as the black box supposed to ping only for 30 days. we got to change that, by the way, right? based on yeah, that is based on the batteries. now, keep in mind again this whole search area is based on the data given to us from malaysia. and today as you know malaysia reported that that last known communication was even wrong, that the pilot actually said, he