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The west. you re talking about it moving 2500 miles out towards the western part of the indian ocean. but could the currents actually have done that? that seems to be the question. the answer seems to be quiet clearly, yes, they could. these are the five major gyres that exist around the world the north pacific, the south pacific, the north atlantic, the south atlantic. this is the currents that move the debris around the ocean and you have the indian ocean. look at that. if we put in play and we imagine now what we know anderson about where the search area is where the thing would have went into the waterer. i s not a leap of faith. ....
An eye out for that. thank you very much. appreciate your insight there. so the indian ocean is a huge place. like every ocean, it s filled with current including gyres. through the gyres a piece of debris could go. all day so i adopted him. when my back pain flared up, we both felt it. i tried tylenol but it was 6 pills a day. with aleve it s just two pills, all day. now i m back! aleve. all day strong. ....
Treating this as a major lead. reporter: on this island the search and really recovery has begun. this piece was found by just onlookers who alerted police and dragged that piece up on the beach. reunion is a french island and they have a french air force base. it is interesting to see how they have authorities coming in. australian has been charged with the search mission up until now. really leading the search mission. they had said this is not unlikely this would have been a place where this piece could have ended up when you look at the different gyres and currents and studies. john. right now, who is in possession of the piece of debris? do we expect any information in the coming hours? i see it is 1:00 p.m. where you are now. still several hours of daylight left. might officials be briefed soon? ....
Whether that came from the missing plane. that s going to be a real job for them to do. there s the final question. is there more debris out there. that, of course, relies on the tio tides, the currents, and the time. richard, i want you to stand by. we have other information that s also coming in, but i quickly want to bring in our meteorologist jennifer grey. this debris washing up, as richard said, more than 2,000 miles from the flight 370 search area, could ocean currents actually have moved it that far? yeah, absolutely, wolf. you know, we were talking about these gyres, the north pacific gyre, but if we spin the world around, you can see the indians ocean gyre. this is the one that the debris would be flowing within, and you can see the counter clockwise motion that the indian ocean gyre is. we ll zoom in just a bit. you can see the search area and where all of this debris, rather has shown up, so it s very ....
thank you to tom foreman for that report. talking about the currents and how the piece traveled. the indian ocean gyre that moves counterclockwise. a good explanation and models to explain how this happened. the movement is so slow here which is why this has taken so long to wash up ashore here. good to see you. we will talk about the global circulation pattern and with the ocean currents here. focus on the search area and where they had been focusing the search and where it continues to be the focus. this is west of australia now. we are taking you, 2647 miles, generally 4,000 kilometers. the question is how did we get debris from west of australia to move essentially 4,000 kilometers all the way to reunion island. perhaps we have debris along at madagascar itself. we want to look at the global ocean currents here. that has to do with the gyres. ....