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Is about two miles deep or 12,000 feet. that would be a little shallower out here. surrounding that, very deep water, 16, 400 feet deep. just heartbreaking here. we're looking at a storm system rolling through parts of the southern indian ocean. once that does move through, quieter conditions will follow. >> if this debris is the debris of the plane, the rest of the plane could be thousands of miles away. >> thank you, maria. that would explain why the australian military has got a c-130 hercules dropping marker buoys in the ocean so they can figure out where exactly -- to maria's point, where...

Contain eer falling off a ship thing. 78 feet, that is a big chunk of something. >> the big chunk of something, they're saying is about 79 feet long, the largest piece. there are two debris fields. does that sort of fit to what we could be looking at if this was wreckage? >> well, yeah. and i don't knowing the dimensions of the tail, i wouldn't be the tail. my speculation, of course, is that it could be a piece of the wing which makes sense. you know, that there is air trapped in the wing. which could be a very positive thing from the standpoint we could begin the accident investigation from t...

How did we go from the large search area and connect it to this small area to what we've been looking at? a little speculation. we took the information we had. we had the last known satellite contact with the plane, this huge ring. and then what we knew is the last radar image that we saw the plane was this last wave at 2:15 in the morning. we took the amount of flying time they would have left in that point of time, six hours. assuming you have the plane at the same altitude until it ran out of gas for every hour, it would match that last intersection of that last sat lite contact. that's whe...

To track it back. >> because even though this is a great lead, that's a good term to use because they're hoping it leads them somewhere else. it's not just about finding this. this is about find wrg it crashed. that's most likely going to be where everything you need. >> the search pattern has moved south, correct? >> yes. it's moving slowly south as they believe the currents are going. >> probably because the xurnt moving zbhchlt right. >> so it had as to go back to find the plane. >> because where the plane actually landed will not be where they find this debris. >> not at all. this is a clu...

Carried them by ocean current and different feelings about the movement of wind, sea, and different components there and take knew this region. then they get the satellite images. they got two pieces debris. one of them is like 75 feet. another is 20 feet. they're 14, 15 miles apart. if everything is right, if every guess they smmake is perfect an those are pieces of this flight, it is still just the beginning. >> it's the beginning. this is the beginning. and there's a clock ticking. this is the fourth inning. there are 14 or 18 days left. >> 18 days because the black box which has all the in...