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And high waves at the surface. waves 13 to 16 feet today. those conditions make it very difficult for divers to see anything if they do get below the surface for them to use those remotely operated cameras below the surface and the hydrophones, which listen for the black box pings. five ships in the region just focused on the black box search but so far no pings yet. the weather is expected to improve a little bit tomorrow. the waves coming down to six to ten feet. but still fairly substantial w...

Quicker than it created solutions. >> information from tom foreman. thanks very much. lets get some more now from ocean scientist and author ellen along with former naval oceanographer, van gerley. ellen, you remember the tsunami in japan. eventually some of the debris from the tsunami wound up in the west coast of the united states because of ocean currents and waves and whatever. is it possible some of the wreckage of this plane, if theres wreckage in the indian ocean, will wind up on the au...

Very stiff resistance. wolf? >> excellent explanation, tom foreman, thank you. lets bring in ocean scientist ellen prager joining us from miami. that was a good explanation from tom, and i understand that bottom over there, the floor of the indian ocean where they are searching has never been mapped at all, so they are not sure whats down there, right? >> thats correct. in fact, you know, you can go on the web and bring up a picture of the bottom topography of the world ocean and it looks like w...

Undertaken. the most difficult search ever undertaken. even though we are constantly refining the search area, even though the search area is move the north, it is still an extraordinarily remote and inaccessible spot. >> but how long will it take? its a race against the clock as the battery in the black box is expected to run out on sunday. and that could make an already difficult task seemingly impossible. greg stone and robert goyer are here. greg knows just how much we dont know about the oc...