Missing Malaysian Airlines MH-370 - Thread 6

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Wow, that graphic really does put it into perspective Nancy.

Ocean Shield relocated signal twice

Is that Fox News ?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10753942/MH370-missing-plane-two-more-pings-detected-in-search-for-Malaysia-Airlines-black-box.html

Good diagram of the ocean shield pings here.

Thanks for the Telegraph link, it does look like this could be it.

At those depths would they be able to recover anything, or is it a case of sending a sub to ID it?

Submersible first but they can't have comms with the sub whilst it is down there - it does a 12 hour scan then comes back up.

apparently it's a case of subs (of the little remote kind) to go back and forth over it trying to pin down location, then subs to go down with video cams that identify it, then subs that are able to extract and take what is needed etc. i may not be being technologically precise but that's the summary of what i got from listening to experts on U.S news channels.

Thanks, I just can't visualise those sort of depths so that graphic that nancy posted was really helpful. I read in one of the articles that silt is going to be a major problem too. At least it looks like they are in the right area.

Nancy that graphic is amazing! and very atmospheric. You really feel as if you're diving as you scroll down. It gives the search some perspective.

They are searching for debris west of the ocean shield pinger hearings.

Does anyone else think it's a bit odd that having found absolutely no wreckage or sign of this plane before, they suddenly appear to have located the black box in the middle of nowhere, just at the point where the batteries are about to die? It feels to me like they must have been pointed to the spot by someone/something. I've not been buying into the conspiracy theories at all, but this does seem a tad far fetched.

Not really - the partial handshake and the additional analysis re airspeed have been used to help narrow the search area, I think.

It's not really "suddenly" is it?

The only thing I find odd is a lack of debris.

I know they've been searching for weeks, but they were describing searching for a needle in a haystack without knowing where the haystack is, searching a vast search area turned up no sign of wreckage. It did feel to me as though they suddenly knew much more specifically where to look - maybe I didn't keep up with the news reports but I wasn't aware of any reports about further analysis narrowing the search area to this extent.

It's been a month, allis - much of the debris would have drifted or sunk (or both!)

So a plane had detected a signal

There are many components of a plane that don't sink, but float. Ships have been searching the area for weeks. It's odd.

in the face of this you can't help but find it farcical.

They haven't been searching this area for weeks though.

Rumours that black box found!!!

Carried away -- should be located/position narrowed enough to get submersible in water

Thought a sub was already there?

By submersible, I mean the Blue Fin 21 that can do underwater exploration

link?