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Goes, the debris would be minimal. >> the debris from the missing plane is a drop in the bucket. roughly most of the debris found in the ocean starts on land. the oceans are vast, so this single tragedy with the missing airplane is not really going to make a dent in ocean pollution. >> reporter: but perhaps the sight of all that junk will make people think before they throw it away. stephanie elam, cnn, santa monica, california. >> thank you, stephanie for that report. im joined by an oceanograp...

Now. that is the day it vanished. ive been trying to put myself in the position of the families of the passengers, the families of the crew. my only reference is when i dont hear from my wife or one of our kids when theyre supposed to calm. the families of flight 370 are still waiting for a phone call while praying an hoping against the odds that it might still bring good news. and yet we have no reason to believe that closure is coming soon. the search for missing flight 370 is proving more and...

Time in the ocean. so its value has not been realized, hat not been thought of. even though the ocean is the life support system of the planet. its the lungs of the planet. its really what keeps -- its what makes the earth a nice place to live. you said at the top of this segment that some scientists not sure who it was said it was like searching for a needle in a garbage patch. thats actually quite true. the ocean, for example plastic, every piece of plastic thats ever been made still exists. a...

Vast area, they dont really know where to look. theyve narrowed it down to an area about 85,000 square miles. thats an enormous area, almost difficult to con conceive of. they havent even found a trace of debris yet, so its a big challenge ahead of them, to say the least. >> jog fothey are in the middle huge garbage patch in the ocean, which is going to make it that much more difficult when they find something to differentiate whether its trash or whether its something very important for that fl...

>> i think so. thats something all of us are hoping for. this is drawing attention to something that is largely an invisible issue for most people. the indian ocean garbage patch wasnt 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. im reading a tremendous number of...

>> this is why when i go to trader joes, i have my own bag now? >> absolutely. >> were talking about those bags coming back to haunt us? >> those bags, childrens toys, anything you can think of thats 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? >> its difficult to say what the source is of these vast garbage patches. some countries produce more waste than others. som...

This is drawing attention to something that is largely an invisible issue for most people. the indian ocean garbage patch wasnt 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. im reading a tremendous number of them fall overboard? theyre a part of the garbage pictur...

>> yeah, sean, this is not very hopeful. but oceanographers say they have something called a gire, as basically a toilet bowl that doesnt 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 ba...

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 t...

It floats there for tens, maybe hundreds of years it stays in the ocean. and what you can find there is really anything youve ever seen in a junkyard, right? its all the way from floating beach balls to rubber duckies to maybe fishing gear to things like refrigerators. everything that is buoyant enough not to sink will just stay on the ocean there. >> floating garbage patch. erik van sebille, thank you so much for your insight this morning. >> well have more on the latest for the search as well ...