123,000 square miles. you know, captain darby, when we talk about the 777, a plane made up of 3 million pieces as we heard rene marsh reporting earlier, it would seem if it went down anywhere in that indian ocean, some of those pieces, hundreds if those thousands of those pieces have the potential to float somewhere in the indian ocean and would have been spotted by satellite imagery or a plane flyover. >> it does seem so many pieces if we were in the right place would see something, every life vest, plastic bottle with a top on it for the past 20 years. >> there's so much that could potentially float even after being waterlogged, a three weeks, four week period of time. >> plastic doesn't show effects for years to degrade. something should be spotted. it's discouraging everything we've found so far has been