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What happens. when you ping and then you wait for it to come back, if you're going too fast, the ship is here and ping won't get to the translouiser on the bottom of the boat. so five miles per hour. one mile width. that's five square miles per hour of the ocean. there's 130 million square miles of the ocean bottom. i did the math. i divided it all up. if you never stopped for fuel and you never stopped for new sailors, it would take you 2,955 years to map the ocean with one ship. >> wait, that's all of the earth's oceans, or that is specifically the area where they're searching. >> the area w...