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And this garbage patch is not just huge, it is on the move, traveling about half a mile per hour or about 12 miles per day and it may be carrying parts of the plane with it. >> it has moved away from the crash site, moved 150 miles by now. and it dispersed, as well. and it is joini inin ining back other debris. >> reporter: leaving the search planes to try to catch up. randi kaye, cnn. >> and we have a short break coming up, set your dvr so you never miss a show, you up next, the tools used to take the search farther and deeper, we'll show you where they are and where they are sent to. and l...

Oceanographer at the university of new south wales in australia joining us via skype tonight. you are an expert in this part of the indian ocean. have you been surprised by the amount of ocean debris found, versus a lack of debris found from the plane? >> no, not at all. we have known a long time that especially the recent search area, the new search area they are looking at now there's a lot of debris there because it is close to what we call the garbage patch and that's where all of the garbage accumulates. there are five in each basin and one in the indian ocean. everything that has been th...

Disrupt the search on the surface. again, if you look at computer models, there aren't that many places in the world's oceans where you actually concentrate marine debris. there could be one here. most of the time it spreads out over time and drifts with currents. honestly, i haven't heard that. could be. unfortunately, our oceans are full of trash, particularly plastics. and, you know, you never want to see that. >> because you know that they dump a lot of garbage in the indian ocean. ships going back and forth. what do you know about this so-called garbage patch? >> well, as ellen said, ther...

>> a lot of time when you use auvs you find a lot of garbage on the ocean bottom, things tossed overboards, barrels, cars, it's amazing -- >> cars? >> yes. each one of these things requires you to put the camera on it. >> sure. >> to make sure it's not what you're looking for. they're so far out in an area that's not trafficked that much in the indian ocean, that i don't expect there to be a lot of these sort of false positives on the ocean bottom. while there's a garbage patch, if they start picking up man-made objects it's most likely this. >> so far away from where mankind destroys the eart...

Information of looking in a spot on the ocean floor and saying for certain there was nothing there helps you figure out where to look next. >> they send the bluefin down from a ship that's there in the indian ocean. it's going to have a lot of wear and tear on the men and women on that ship. just staying out there. >> absolutely. but these are professional mariners. they're used to going and spending months at sea at a time. that part doesn't worry me. as ellen said, the thing you have to start looking at is, you know, if there's a real big mechanical fault. something they can't fix on the dec...