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Goes, the debris would be minimal. >> the debris from the missing plane is a drop in the bucket. roughly most of the debris found in the ocean starts on land. the oceans are vast, so this single tragedy with the missing airplane is not really going to make a dent in ocean pollution. >> reporter: but perhaps the sight of all that junk will make people think before they throw it away. stephanie elam, cnn, santa monica, california. >> thank you, stephanie for that report. i'm joined by an oceanographer at the university of new south wales in australia, thank you for joining us. you're an expert i...

Now. that is the day it vanished. i've been trying to put myself in the position of the families of the passengers, the families of the crew. my only reference is when i don't hear from my wife or one of our kids when they're supposed to calm. the families of flight 370 are still waiting for a phone call while praying an hoping against the odds that it might still bring good news. and yet we have no reason to believe that closure is coming soon. the search for missing flight 370 is proving more and more difficult every day. ten search planes, nine ships, and they're all looking for what one oc...

Time in the ocean. so its value has not been realized, hat not been thought of. even though the ocean is the life support system of the planet. it's the lungs of the planet. it's really what keeps -- it's what makes the earth a nice place to live. you said at the top of this segment that some scientists not sure who it was said it was like searching for a needle in a garbage patch. that's actually quite true. the ocean, for example plastic, every piece of plastic that's ever been made still exists. and it was first made in about 1909. and most of it is in the ocean. and we've got these gyres t...

Vast area, they don't really know where to look. they've narrowed it down to an area about 85,000 square miles. that's an enormous area, almost difficult to con conceive of. they haven't even found a trace of debris yet, so it's a big challenge ahead of them, to say the least. >> jog fothey are in the middle huge garbage patch in the ocean, which is going to make it that much more difficult when they find something to differentiate whether it's trash or whether it's something very important for that flight and for solving this mystery. matthew chance. thank you, matthew. more news breaking o...

>> i think so. that's something all of us are hoping for. this is drawing attention to something that is largely an invisible issue for most people. the indian ocean garbage patch wasn't discovered until 2010 by groups going across the ocean to see if there was a garbage patch there. similar to a fairly well known garbage patch called the great pacific garbage patch. >> the cargo containers? >> i came up from philly on a train, and you see them along i-95 stacked. i'm reading a tremendous number of them fall overboard? they're a part of the garbage picture you're describing? >> right, exactly....