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I mean do you feel -- obviously there's a lot of countries involved in this. is it pretty well covered? do you feel like more assets would help? or was that almost diminishing returns? >> well, it depends how far south and into the indian ocean you look. i mean i can tell you the indian ocean goes so far, there probably isn't enough ships and aircraft in the world to search every inch of it. if you take a map of the united states, superimpose that stretching from the north to the south indian ocean, it's kind of like saying, all right, i want to find a person somewhere between new york and cal...

Wanting the u.s. navy out here looking. >> are there enough assets in this region? i mean do you feel -- obviously there's a lot of countries involved in this. is it pretty well covered? do you feel like more assets would help? or was that almost diminishing returns? >> well, it depends how far south and into the indian ocean you look. i mean i can tell you the indian ocean goes so far, there probably isn't enough ships and aircraft in the world to search every inch of it. if you take a map of the united states, superimpose that stretching from the north to the south indian ocean, it's kind of...

>> great question. the indian ocean is tremendously deep. i think the answer is not really. what we do first is search the surface of the water. if necessary, these -- the p8 and p-3 can drop sonar buoys. let's say we found the black box and thought we knew where it was, that could be used to detect that frequency and triangulate it. so we have a very slight ability to penetrate underneath the surface of the water but for the most part it's the surface and then that very initial sonar buoy later. >> commander marks, thank you. we'll check back with you tomorrow. thanks to you and to all of the...

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