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It. talk about ocean junk here. in the search for the plane, we're learning a little bit more. look at this. spotting possible debris, ended up thus far picking up junk, garbage here. turns out the mh-370 search zone off australia is near one of five gyres in the world, so gyre -- it's a technical term for the way ocean kucurrents ca rotate. the gyres attract huge amounts of trash, things we use every day like coffee stir sticks. i mean, we found this picture, just to give you an example of how these stir sticks from one activist group, how they found them, more than a thousand. they've been t...

>> there really isn't. it's very difficult to tell, you know, what is any common household product. you mentioned chairs. when you walk on the beaches of oceans in the gyres it looks like a department store washed ashore. they sit in these gyres for years if not decades. to distinguish a seat cushion, for example or something from a luggage from the background material is very difficult. >> thank you, marcus, appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> i want to get my experts reaction right now. those were just the small items. there is a lot of ocean junk in this part of the ocean. how challenging doe...

Distinguish between a tire and a piece of a floating cushion, let's say, from a plane? >> i think not until you get down to the water's surface. a satellite image might not have the resolution to discern a peace of luggage from a buoy or a truck tire. but once you're down there on the ocean's surface, you begin to see the kind of debris that's out there. fishing industry stuff. lots of buoys and fishing nets. also smaller items. all the single uses we use are finding ways into the ocean gyres. we can't fix the plane crash, but we can fix this plastic problem. >> that's what i wanted to get to,...

People are wondering about this missing mh-370. what happens if this plane is never found? and will this mystery change the way we fly in the future? we'll delve into that next. also ahead, the search in the indian ocean has thus far turned up not a thing from this plane here. but you see these pictures. they have gotten fishing equipment, all kinds of trash, jellyfish. in fact, this area is known for ocean junk. coming up, we'll bring in an expert to explain exactly how much debris, how much muck is floating around and how much more difficult it's actually making the search. [ female announ...

That they can consider suspicious but so far pretty much all of those objects and remember, pretty much all of those satellite observations in the previous zone have all turned out to be just ocean junk, not wreckage from the plane. and as tonnishly we're on day 24, in the fourth week and so far absolutely nothing has been found that can tie anything on the ocean to that plane. >> and bill, there was one sort of epilog from -- first reported by cctv and confirmed with the malaysian transport authorities by john boxly, that they've now recalibrated what the final words from the co-pilot were. a...