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Geographically it is very difficult, isn't it? >> yeah. it is certainly one of the most austere places that i've operated out of. you've got obviously the desert plain, but then the hindu cush as well. the capabilities of the taliban with ground knowledge was something we didn't quite get our heads around. they know the lay of the land incredibly well. getting around that part of the world, getting around helmand province is something very difficult to do and on what the brits and the americans had to do was they had to literally pour a significant amount of helicopter capability in there in o...

Now radars would not be able to pick it up. so we are very reliant on lookouts who use binoculars. >> reporter: waldock says twice as many ships are needed. >> you still got to go out and you still got to look. one of the things you start believing in, when you do this enough, is luck. >> reporter: he says the best bet for crews, focus on finding the larger debris field. it's easier for the human eye to detect. all right, and in the words of one expert, this operation needs more assets. ideally you'd want an aircraft carrier so the search planes don't have to make these tremendously long trips...