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Up where did it, would support the thesis that the plane went down in that primary search zone off the coast australia. why, you say? because of the currents in the indian ocean. they do a counter clockwise movement. if could i draw a circle there, innocent middle of the indian ocean, i would do that. you would see counter clockwise, thats what the currents do. they believe it is entirely possible that months, even a year later, it picked up debris and then dropped it over there at reunion islan...

The water. as they examine the sea life the barnacles, is there anything in that that tells them some are more likely to be from this part of the indian ocean than this part of the indian ocean. marine biologists will have to weigh in on that. now begins an even bigger challenge to try to backtrack this piece through the indian ocean to get some sense, looking at ocean currents where might this piece have originated where might the rest of flight 370 be sitting right now. back to you. >> tom cos...

Life which might be unique to particular parts of the indian ocean and therefore might suggest what path or where in the indian ocean this particular piece of wreckage has originated from. is it in fact something that might have come from the western side of australia, which of course is the original location that the search teams have been focused on and they continue to be focused on because they believe that in fact the debris likely got caught up in this counter clockwise movement of ocean c...

Boats. theyre dragging sonar and dragging things across the bed of the ocean and an average of about 10 miles a day trying to find out where the wreckage from this plane is. the malaysians, obviously, are in a sense in the lead in the search because the plane took off from malaysias capital. the chinese are involved. more than half the passengers were chinese. boeing because it was a boeing 777. the u.s. is involved because one of the passengers was, in fact, an american. as you say, a multi-nat...

To this island. joining us now is john ransom, former commercial pilot and anthony row iman, former commercial pilot and avian expert. and also with us ian mcdonald president of oceanography at florida state university will be joining us by phone. anthony roman, whats your reading on the latest news? >> i think this is a remarkable development, lawrence and the first real break i think we have had in the investigation concerning this mysterious disappearance. the ocean currents and the wind drif...

Ul. >> but annabel, what i dont understand is they have narrowed down the search regarding the ping sounds, yet theyve expanded the search today? why is that? >> reporter: well, thats based on the currents, the ocean currents, the weather forecast, whether they might expect the debris, any possible debris would have been carried by the ocean. but that really varies from day to day. sometimes the area to be searched goes up. that also depends on the visibility, on the weather forecast, what the c...

About the ocean currents and the way the water moves up here. perhaps that suggests that the debris field is moving in that direction. none of that is confirmed. if we go up one time we can show you two main routs and main theories from the origination point in kuala lumpur. one was kazahkstan that was ruled out weeks ago. one was rout two off the coast of australia. this is the area again on the screen, you can see off the coast of perth if you go back to the original site, where this location ...

Debris might have moved with the ocean currents over the period of time since the image were initially taken? >> oh, yeah, they do lots of calculating at various oceanographic institutes. often times they have been miles and miles off when they locate the wreckage. if you find a light piece like this, it doesnt tell you much about the investigation, if it is from this plane. then you try to figure out where the currents might have taken it if it with get you back to the area where the plane migh...

Probably in the deep south indian ocean. the distance from perth, australia, weve talked about this before, pardon my back as i try to move from one screen to another here, we talked about the distance here, 1,500 miles off australia, four-hour flight. if you wanted to put this aircraft in the deepest, most remote portion of the indian ocean, that is where you would choose. it is very isolated, its very difficult in terms of the kind of ocean currents underway there in the indian ocean and close...