MH370 Possible New Search

 

Back in March there was a lot of excitement in the quest for the lost airliner Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Ocean Infinity had just begun its search in the best estimated area for the location of the wreck, the so-called "7th arc"; given that name because of the INMARSAT data. This search was hampered by two problems, the upcoming southern winter and the endurance of the ship. From April to November the southern Indian Ocean becomes very rough and cold. Storms and floating ice make locating and salvage impossible. OI's Armada 86-class vessels are very modern and capable, with facilities for deploying AUV's, robot submarines like the one illustrated above; but operating alone in mid-ocean without a network of supply ships last time meant it could only spend about a fortnight on station and it took almost as much time to get to and from port. See the background link below for details. As luck would have it Jeff Wise has a very reliable contact called Kevin Rupp who seems to know a lot of the private goings on at OI. Based on current operations and ship movements it is possible they are preparing to head for the MH370 search area in early December when the summer begins and the weather tends to me more clement, save the occasional typhoon. Source: https://www.deepdivemh370.com/p/seabed-search-update-s2ep41-video. Of course, like regular readers, I am well aware that Jeff has serious doubts that the missing aircraft really did crash into the Indian Ocean. Two of his fellow MH37-tologists, Florence de Changy and Ashton Forbes, agree with him; although Florence thinks the plane never left the Gulf of Thailand and Ashton believes it ended up at the Diego Garcia base. Jeff still feels positive about this new development because it's important to reduce the possibility that MH370 is there as much as possible; although you can never eliminate it. Hopefully we will learn more next month.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.