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Bright current. you can see some of the most powerful currents in the world. that's just a graphic interpretation of how the current could be carrying whatever debris might be out there. then of course there's the cloud cover. so the satellites may see something one day. today, the clouds come in, they can't see bebeneath the clouds. sometimes the satellites can't even see through the clouds themselves. the surface vessels are still out there searching. >> right. but they haven't managed to get to one of these debris fields which is what's so frustrating. as you say, we have cloud cover. we ha...

Million square kilometers. today they are focusing on 80. why that particular area? >> reporter: it's an area that they have looked over before. if you look at the latest map from the search coordinators, the area of interest is within that much bigger zone. it's about, it's several hundred kilometers to the east of where the flights route indicated the plane may have gone. if the plane did come down looks as if the drift would have taken any debris towards the east. this is of particular interest. it's where both the chinese have spotted objects in the past few days which have not been reloca...

It could have hit. where the debris would have fallen if the plane had a catastrophic failure at cruisiig altitude. >> if you loi layer those you get a heat map. it's probably in that location where it's red and green is a medium chance. >> reporter: managing those zones has huge obstacles. why is it search aircraft can promise so many leads and surface vessels can't find them. >> the item could have sunk. it could have been blown completely off on a different course or pushed someplace else and the ship will never find it again. >> reporter: china's government released this photo of an object...

Naval officer david jordan. the news we received today, that search area in the last three or four days, that has been suspended for 24 hours. just talk to me about how weather in general affects ocean searches. >> my expertise is searching under the water. can we go underneath this floor? >> i wish. >> under water, the weather is a different problem. you're mainly concerned about the surface waves. under water, it's nice and quiet. in a hurricane, a submarine is unaffected. >> but those surface vessels are not. we understand today the waves are anywhere from 1 or 2 meters to 3 or 4. can you c...

Promising leads and surface vessels can't find them? bobby skoelly was on the neighbor vi dive team that recovered wreckage of twa flight 800. >> the item could have sunk, it could have been blown completely off on a different course or pushed some place else and the ship will just never find it again. >> reporter: china's government released this photo of an object that turned out to be a whale carcass but if any wreckage is found, a drift analysis map can help find the rest of the plane. data marker buoys helped measure where the wreckage of air france flight 447 came from. >> over a two wee...