Malaysia has NOT Signed!

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/03/malaysia-signs.html.
I must make an urgent correction to the background article posted above. It turns out that rumours of Malaysia signing the contract with Ocean Infinity were greatly exaggerated. How this mix-up happened I cannot imagine. How was it the families group got told the news with such certainty, on headed paper etc? To be honest, I felt a niggling doubt from the start. The fact that it was not done with a public ceremony and that OI would not confirm it was a bit dodgy. The new latest release also does not refer to a time limit for the search period. It could be that the families simply misunderstood an older press release. I don't know why there is so much confusion following Malaysia's originally very positive stance on OI's project. They were quite happy with OI's proposal for an eighteen month period in which the company would be paid £70 million IF the search yielded significant new forensic evidence, ie wreckage from MH370. Oliver Plunkett, the CEO of Ocean Infinity describes MH370 as "unfinished business" and clearly feels very passionate about it on a personal level. He has put in a lot of emotional commitment to this search. Last night Armada 7806 ended the bathymetric survey of the Blelly-Marchand hotspot. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RssJOP0pbro.

At the same time this update broke, Armada 7806 turned north and began steaming with all dispatch. At first the ship tracker followers thought she might be heading for a new search area, but then her destination statement changed to Singapore, which is the ship's home port. She had enough fuel and victuals for a further six days of operations, so the search team ended it early. The fact that the ship is heading for Singapore and not Fremantle is a bad sign. It indicates that their mission has been aborted. We don't know why this has happened or what the future plans are because neither OI nor Malaysia has made any further statements. We'll have to wait and see; but really if nothing is done in the next couple weeks then it looks like a total cancellation of the search for MH370. By late April or early May the weather in that part of the Indian Ocean tends to get very bad so making searches impossible. It won't improve again until November. Jeff Wise thinks that Armada 7806 is too small for the task anyway, and it lacks the range and facility for mass AUV deployment. I can't help wondering if deep down a lot of people in control of this situation are well aware that the plane really is not at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. There's clearly a lot of conflict between Jeff and the remainder of the Independent Group. I know Jeff does not believe in WSPR, but the issue goes beyond that and gets quite personal. He implies that Richard Godfrey is some kind of shill. Jeff suspects Godfrey has committed stolen valour related to his past qualifications in the space programme. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHZOn0xF858. I don't know once way or the other, but I am well aware that, generally speaking, when two people in the Conspirasphere fall out they will usually accuse each other of being a government patsy. One thing Jeff has confirmed as true is that Richard Godfrey did work for Marconi is the early 1970's. Luckily he had left by the time the infamous suicide epidemic broke out, see here for details: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/04/programme-460-falklands-war-40_14.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/06/falklands-war-40th-anniversary.html. This may not be the end of the story. Ocean Infinity may choose to return in the southern spring and continue the operation from where they left off; but that is months away, and all this political toing and froing must be terribly frustrating and upsetting for the MH370 families.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.