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To have to probably in consultation with everybody who has a stake in this, review what we do next. >> so i turn once more to colonel michael kay and christine dennison here in new york. and then also live in seattle right now, oceanographer, curt ebbsmeyer, a pioneer in flotsometrics. at what point can we no longer extrapolate, even if we find one piece of debris, where that came from and ultimately end up at an airplane? >> that's a good question, ashleigh. i saw your -- i saw the fine reporting of the people on the boat. and the winds actually will help us. the winds actually push debris in...

I would say if they did find that, certainly that would be a positive thing. debris -- anything at this point. they could start to sort of trace back and see it. >> colonel kay, if you're flying, and i would love you to react specifically to what curt ebbsmeyer reported to us, and that is that this kind of weather causes foam lines, not debris fields. he says it's helpful. and you're the guy spotting this stuff before. is it? >> yeah, i think it's a great point brought up. and obviously going to be more identifiable from the air and morality attitude you can get, the more likelihood of spottin...

Commute is not so long, they can search around five hours on location. so before we get ahead of ourselves, remember that every other siting of something in the water, where everybody gets excited, and sadly, nobody gets hand on anything and never to be seen again. well, sometimes that stuff actually does appear a long time after it's seen. and while we wait for confirmation of what was seen today, i want to talk to curt ebbsmeyer, a phd in oceanography and wrote a book called "how things float in the ocean." it's fascinating field of science that most of us rarely even think about until somet...

The authorities need to come out and remove it and put it through forensic examination. but pets may have things like that. the cards, sim cards, cell phones, i know of fish in holland, a cod, a 60-pound cod ate a cell phone and a fisherman found it, opened up the fish, took out the cell phone, cleaned it off and called the owner. so there is all kinds of debris out there that will not show up in satellites or any kind of photographic overflight data that can only be found by people really on the water or on the beach. >> it's amazing information. curt, your books are fascinating reading for a...