and search for that body. you have to go in in a very deliberate way. you don t know exactly where sargeanton be son wound up and you have to start a search pattern. so there s lots of questions right now, and i think what we re seeing out of the pentagon is a very deliberate investigation that s trying to get the answers. this investigation is really important because most people didn t know that the u.s. has, what, 1,000 troops in niger right now. they certainly didn t know how potentially dangerous it is and there s a lot of questions that members of congress, the american public, especially the families have. there are a lot of questions, wolf. it s important that everyone take a kind of take a breather and let this investigation play out. we can t lose sight of the fact that it s a very important mission that they re conducting in africa. this mission is in america s national interests. the worse thing we can do is over react before we know all of the circumstances. in other
give us your take on what the rest of the crews are up against. i think captain fedor expressed exactly what the conditions are very clearly. they re up against really nasty storm, they re up against huge seas, up against bad weather, and that makes for a very complicated and difficult search pattern. they are following the storm, find thing life raft is a very good sign. at this point, all they can do is wait for the weather to calm down. you re familiar with the ocean. you re an ocean explorer. they went out on tuesday night. should they have known the dangers that they would be coming upon given the route they were taking? this isn t 1930. we have an idea, advanced notice of these kinds of storms. i agree with you. i know this area, having run several expeditions to this area, and you have water starting at 5,000 feet going down to 15,000 feet. very deep water. there s nowhere to run in this
give us your take on what the rest of the crews are up against. i think captain fedor expressed exactly what the conditions are very clearly. they re up against really nasty storm, they re up against huge seas, up against bad weather, and that makes for a very complicated and difficult search pattern. they are following the storm, find thing life raft is a very good sign. at this point, all they can do is wait for the weather to calm down. you re familiar with the ocean. you re an ocean explorer. they went out on tuesday night. should they have known the dangers that they would be coming upon given the route they were taking? this isn t 1930. we have an idea, advanced notice of these kinds of storms. i agree with you. i know this area, having run several expeditions to this area, and you have water starting at 5,000 feet going down to 15,000 feet. very deep water. there s nowhere to run in this
give us your take on what the rest of the crews are up against. i think captain fedor expressed exactly what the conditions are very clearly. they re up against really nasty storm, they re up against huge seas, up against bad weather, and that makes for a very complicated and difficult search pattern. they are following the storm, find thing life raft is a very good sign. at this point, all they can do is wait for the weather to calm down. you re familiar with the ocean. you re an ocean explorer. they went out on tuesday night. should they have known the dangers that they would be coming upon given the route they were taking? this isn t 1930. we have an idea, advanced notice of these kinds of storms. i agree with you. i know this area, having run several expeditions to this area, and you have water starting at 5,000 feet going down to 15,000 feet. very deep water. there s nowhere to run in this
has reached out to help in this search. you were instrumental in mh370. good to have you back with us. let s talk about this area to brings you up to date the red area you re see sgt original search area. about the size of the state of georgia to give us an idea of how big the area is and then we know this is the area in yellow where the debris was first spotted. what does that tell you when you look at that area and talk to us about the conditions of what this is like out there? well obviously where they find the debris may not be exactly where the plane went down. they re going to have to find more debris as much as they can and develop a search pattern for where the plane possibly is. in terms of a search pattern. let s look in here. you ve got this technology we just had a great look with gary tuchman in his piece. a couple of tools that you ve used in the past. you ve talked about with us here.