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Don't know if it is connected to flight 370. i want to bring in my panel of experts, conservation biologist, marine debris specialist nick malles. mark dombroff and pilot les abens. and pilot miles o'brien. nick, i want to start with you. are you surprised they haven't found any plane debris yet or anything that is solid evidence? >> not really. we forget that the ocean is a massive, massive expanse, and particularly as we're seeing from the imagery that has surfaced in the past few days, even when we have planes flying at low-lying altitudes and boats on the water, it's incredibly difficult t...

Debris or lose things in the ocean because this water is moving at 3 or 4 miles per hour. it simply isn't doing that and it won't do that in this entire area here. what we have is the south gyre. the indian gyre right through here, indian ocean, around and around and around. this is something else that i'm a little bit concerned about, too, because if something falls into this gyre, it stays in the gyre for a long time until it sinks or gets onshore somewhere. around and around and around. all that debris goes. and some of the debris that we're seeing especially by the satellites may have been...

On these floating items very, very difficult. >> okay. miles, i think nick brings up a very good point, and if we do have -- if we have any sort of animation that can show the ocean, the indian ocean. you look at the size of asia, the size of africa, the size of australia there. you can fit almost all of them into the indian ocean. then you sort of get the idea of just how big an expanse this is. when it takes you four or five hours to fly to a search zone that's not even in the middle of the indian ocean. i think that sort of gives you the idea of what they're up against and how big this is. ...