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Riddle. >> sean, they call this body of ocean the roaring 40s, because these seas are just so overwhelming. look at some of this video. they're talking about some of these waves getting up over 32 feet high. how are they supposed to even search out there? >> well, you're exactly right. extremely challenging. and, you know, very adverse conditions, right? so part of this is using gps technology, which is something that is far more accessible now than some of the past investigations, some of the other guests have talked about. but using that technology with known search patterns, that these folk...

One of the black boxes up and it answered the riddle. >> they call this body of ocean the roaring 40s because the seas are just so overwhelming. they talk about the seas getting sometimes up over 32 feet high. how are they even supposed to search out there? >> well, you're exactly right, extremely challenging, very adverse conditions, right? so part of this is using gps technology which is something that is far more accessible now than in some of the past investigations. some of the other guests have talked about. but using that technology with known search patterns, that these folks are train...

They call this body of ocean the roaring 40s because these seas are just so overwhelming. look at some of this video. they're talking about some of these waves getting up over 32 feet high. how are they supposed to even search out there? >> you're exactly right. extremely challenging and very adverse conditions. part of this is using gps technology, which is something that is far more accessible now than in some of the past investigation, some of the other guests have talked about. but using that technology with known search patterns, these folks are train to do do this. they know how it do th...

One of the black boxes up and it answered the riddle. >> they call this body of ocean the roaring 40s because the seas are just so overwhelming. they talk about the seas getting sometimes up over 32 feet high. how are they even supposed to search out there? >> well, you're exactly right, extremely challenging, very adverse conditions, right? so part of this is using gps technology which is something that is far more accessible now than in some of the past investigations. some of the other guests have talked about. but using that technology with known search patterns, that these folks are train...

Drift. so they'll take the current position and then they'll pack it up, the number of days and hours, right down to the hour, that that most probably impacted. it will start the concentration of the search in that area and then go outward. so if they do identify that debris area to be the malaysian aircraft, then in short order, they will find where that flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder is. >> of course, the first order of business is going to make sure that there are no survivors, or to search for survivors in this area. you mentioned they'd go down to about 500 feet. is t...