>> well, the longer it goes, the further materials that are floating are going to disperse. with the air france situation, they found the floating debris within five to six days. at least you have a general idea of where to start. but the longer it goes on, the sea currents, wind currents are going to move all of that debris. they are going to scatter is and mix it in with all of the other trash that unfortunately happens to be throughout most of the oceans. >> well, mike, you were there. you helped fine this thing i guess two careers after that first wreckage was found. just give us some perspective, how big was your initial search area? >> i think the initial search area are to the underwater vehicles was 5,000 square miles. >> 5,000. which is about 600 times smaller than this one right now. and you had, what, submarines underwater, robots? what were you using? >> we had three underwater vehicles, basically, unmanned