On Ocean Current News Today

Fashion, as you see there. they move at a rather slow pace. half a nautical mile per day or so. in some cases maybe one nautical mile per day. oceanographers say, to pick up on bills.it is entirely possible that the debris is or the wreckage is off the coast of australia. thats where the plane went down. and yet it has taken nearly 17 months for the debris to literally sircircumnavigate the basin and over madagascar and reunion island which is what some oceanographers were suggesting. theyve got...

>> a man whose country is in mourning. no question. thank you, andrew stevens. we will let you get back to the scene. >> lets look at the spot where the debris was found six miles or so from the point of last radar contact. our meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us with the conditions there. pedram. >> guys six miles. andrew said we have inside an hour to work with when it comes to daylight. the debris field located within a weak eddy current. it is rotating 13 miles per day based on my data he...

>> this is a pain staking task. you hook these things on the a ship. the ship has to move slowly and hope its in the right place. >> reporter: thats right. thats why its so difficult. this is usa navy device thats specifically designed, by the way, to listen for data recorder from a downed aircraft either military or a civilian commercial airliner, designed specifically for that and listen to a depth of 20,000 feet if the data recorder was 20,000 feet under the surface of the ocean this equipmen...

Timely. the u.s. navy is shipping a piece of vital equipment out to australia today. its essentially a device that is put in the water, towed by a ship and listens for the pings, if you will, from the data recorders and heres -- this has been the big dilemma. this is what were anticipating. if they can find debris and they know where to begin to look for the data recorders, they have to find debris first then calculate where the data recorders might be based on ocean current, ocean movement, ela...

And is there anything in there that would suggest where in the indian ocean it originated. in other words is there some specific barnicle or piece of sea life that might be specific to a part of the indian ocean that would give them further evidence where this original plane wreckage might lie. >> and greg five, takefe a talking about the currents and potential sea life indicators, how the does that help them reverse engineer this and try to find the wreckage of the plane itself? >> well, throug...