Originally Posted by
smachiz
strong currents disperse wreckage pretty quickly, so you're not looking at a concentrated 'spot' the way we might have 24 or 48 hours after the crash.
Also, anything that didn't stay floating probably won't be just randomly coming up.
And to expand even further, the plane went missing nearly 2 weeks ago. Assuming ocean currents of 3-4 knots, if it is wreckage the crash site could be more than 1,000 miles from the debris.
Also, anything large and partly submerged will drift at a vastly different rate to stuff that floats totally on top of the water. There could well be stuff spread over 100's of miles by now if it is in fact the missing 777.