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recently a chinese ship in search of the airplane came across trash instead. even sea life can t tell the difference. fish, sea lions, birds, they all ingest this junk, thinking it might be food. you know, i hear this talk about there being 300-plus pieces from the aircraft. there are 300,000-plus pieces of trash already there. reporter: the indian ocean gyre are anot the only ones there, they are elsewhere, forming when there is a vortex of swirling water, which pulls them into the center of the indian ocean. the gyre is thought to be about 2 million square miles, the united states is just under 4 million square miles. and this garbage is not still, it travels about half a mile per hour or about 12 miles per day and it may be carrying parts of the plane with it. it has moved away from the

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