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Potentially as deep as over 13,000 feet. and a lot of people keep bringing up the talk about silt. how much silt is down there? well, i wanted to take a closer look, and they're talking about some places seeing silt as deep as about 100 feet. but notice, once you start talking about some of these green areas, you're talking about even into yellow, places that potentially have even over 1,000 feet of silt. >> wow. >> some of these areas in the green or yellow go up even over 3,000 feet of silt. so, that's going to be a huge concern, even under the ocean as well. >> wow. visibility and also tryi...

See the plane, then that is really new territory. >> they'll be able to see the plane. will they be able to see all of the plane? because there's, what, 20 meters, in some cases, of silt on the ocean floor. you were telling us about this silt. will that cause visibility problems? what kind of challenges will that present? >> yes, it's absolutely true that it's visibility problems, probably. it might also be sound problems. it might be that the pinger -- and remember, they're still searching or listening to this ping -- that the silt might actually affect that in some ways. but to be honest, we...