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Fashion, as you see there. they move at a rather slow pace. half a nautical mile per day or so. in some cases maybe one nautical mile per day. oceanographers say, to pick up on bill's.it is entirely possible that the debris is or the wreckage is off the coast of australia. that's where the plane went down. and yet it has taken nearly 17 months for the debris to literally sircircumnavigate the basin and over madagascar and reunion island which is what some oceanographers were suggesting. they've got to now go back and figure out mathematically and use all satellite historical data on ocean curr...

>> a man whose country is in mourning. no question. thank you, andrew stevens. we will let you get back to the scene. >> let's look at the spot where the debris was found six miles or so from the point of last radar contact. our meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us with the conditions there. pedram. >> guys six miles. andrew said we have inside an hour to work with when it comes to daylight. the debris field located within a weak eddy current. it is rotating 13 miles per day based on my data here based on ocean current. we know the pilot made a call for a left turn because of the thunderstor...

>> this is a pain staking task. you hook these things on the a ship. the ship has to move slowly and hope it's in the right place. >> reporter: that's right. that's why it's so difficult. this is usa navy device that's specifically designed, by the way, to listen for data recorder from a downed aircraft either military or a civilian commercial airliner, designed specifically for that and listen to a depth of 20,000 feet if the data recorder was 20,000 feet under the surface of the ocean this equipment should be able to hear it. but it is very pain staking. a lot of people wonder why in the las...

Timely. the u.s. navy is shipping a piece of vital equipment out to australia today. it's essentially a device that is put in the water, towed by a ship and listens for the pings, if you will, from the data recorders and here's -- this has been the big dilemma. this is what we're anticipating. if they can find debris and they know where to begin to look for the data recorders, they have to find debris first then calculate where the data recorders might be based on ocean current, ocean movement, elapsed time since the incident then they can put this kind of hi-tech equipment in the water and se...

And is there anything in there that would suggest where in the indian ocean it originated. in other words is there some specific barnicle or piece of sea life that might be specific to a part of the indian ocean that would give them further evidence where this original plane wreckage might lie. >> and greg five, takefe a talking about the currents and potential sea life indicators, how the does that help them reverse engineer this and try to find the wreckage of the plane itself? >> well, through ocean current movement they're going to be able to at least identify how long over a period of tim...