flotsam and jetsam is right now and they ve focused into that narrow band to really get some eyes on to what might be in the water. and it really truly is the eyeballs looking out the window to try and identify what s there. right. you know, john, my question for you is this. you re a former military officer, so you know sort of what the government sees versus what civilians like us see. i think there are a lot of questions out there right now about whether those satellite images that we ve been showing our viewers over the last 24 hours are of the same quality and specificity as those in the military, in governments globally working to find this plane, what they re seeing. is there any difference whatsoever? look, the key thing is that we ve got to remember that when that photograph was taken, when that imagery was taken, this was not considered a high-priority area for high-resolution images to be taken. right. so, take a high-resolution image on a stretch of southern
and then, let s get to the main question which is who do they have? what do they have in term of this search and conducting it? what do we know? first of all, i think at this point they have been following debris for two, three days now. yes, satellite images that they re working off and showing you this morning are from several days ago. so they ve had some idea and they ve been accurately following this debris with planes, helicopters, trying to get a visual. so now you ve got the issues with drift and currents and they ve been able to locate. they re working off grids. they re squaring off different areas thatter that going they p looking for. but what we re finding is they have this area locked in for right now. so what we know is we see the two objects, not sure what they are. again, you re going to hear the words, flotsam and jetsam. they re hoping it is intentional
flotsam and jetsam we want to talk about the next steps to getting information about this piece of debris. david sousa is a safety analyst and author of why planes crash. also, les abenda, a boeing 777 pilot and aviation analyst. david, you have been honing in now on how far these objects are from the australian coast. how difficult it will be to get to them. and really, the key pieces of information we still need. yeah, what i d like to do is set some expectations for the families, because this investigation from this point
to go back to try to track that back to find out where they did hit the water. then focus on that. if they float, it s been a week now. nothing is static in the water. and we re hearing these objects were spotted on satellite imagery they do have to take a look to make sure of what exactly this is. what the find is. we ve had reports all over the place as far as what direction, what happened to it, different theorys why do you think officials finally focused on this particular area off the coast of australia? i think they had good indications that is where the plane was headed now keep in mind piloted as far as we know. so they could have changed direction. we may end up finding out this, you know flotsam and jetsam floating in the water and we re back to square one.
now, obviously there is a current that is pushing it or wind driven current or ocean driven current moving the items. it s a moving target. okay. look at the distance. this is perth, australia. we re trying to give you the idea the location. perth australia, 1500 miles off the coast. a lot of people thought we would find this in the southern indian ocean, not as far south. again, they are looking for clues. they have to run it down. if they came out and said this is a credible lead, then assets have to be deployed. otherwise, they re looking for nothing right now. this is a good lead. this is a credible lead. last, i want to talk about the currents. this is something that is really significant. we know they re calling this a gyre. explain what that is and how it would affect how if debris or any other sort of what chris is talking about flotsam and jetsam in the area could move or not move.