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>> well, the longer it goes, the further materials that are floating are going to disperse. with the air france situation, they found the floating debris within five to six days. at least you have a general idea of where to start. but the longer it goes on, the sea currents, wind currents are going to move all of that debris. they are going to scatter is and mix it in with all of the other trash that unfortunately happens to be throughout most of the oceans. >> well, mike, you were there. you helped fine this thing i guess two careers after that first wreckage was found. just give us some pers...

Flotsam two weeks after the crash, would you know where to start? and if you don't find >> well, the longer it goes, the further materials that are floating are going to disperse. with the air france situation, they found the floating debris within five to six days. at least you have a general idea of where to start. but the longer it goes on, the sea currents, wind currents are going to move all of that debris. they are going to scatter is and mix it in with all of the other trash that unfortunately happens to be throughout most of the oceans. >> well, mike, you were there. you helped fine th...

Do very, very carefully. now just yesterday, i was with cnn photojournalist steve zorginn, and we flew out with the coast guard and from high above, let me tell you, from all the oil we could see, it's going to be a very tall order to take care of this mess. from the air, the spill appears massive. >> booms trying to recover oil. >> reporter: even from this height, there's plenty to see. at the surface, there's a little bit of a rainbowlike sheen. that will be burned away by the sun's rays, but there's also a thicker layer of crude oil in place. all that will have to be scooped away. no wa sci...

It's very grainy. it's about, they say, 72 feet or so in length. and so the question becomes where is that? you would think you would see something if it's 73 feet, almost the length of a tennis court. you would see that somewhere in the ocean. the trouble is as we have said many times, this is a massive search zone. and, in fact, if you look at the new search zone that's been given by the australians, this has now been cut down from 102,000 square miles down to 20,000 square miles. so it's still a huge area to look for something as small, relatively, as that. and so now you've heard about the...

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