Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members.
Two previous searches for MH370 have examined an area of 3 million square kilometres above water and more than 120,000 square kilometres below sea in the Indian Ocean.
On February 25, the Malaysian Transport Minister confirmed that the private company involved in the search for MH370 will review a new search area about 1,500 km west of Perth, Australia.
This time, the search for MH370 will use more advanced technology to map the entire ocean floor. Ocean Infinity has dispatched the Armada 7806 to join the new search.
The search team will also use underwater drones to search for the missing plane. The search device is capable of probing at a depth of 6 km and can sweep the seabed for up to 100 hours.
A 15,000-km2 area will be searched in the latest search. The area was chosen to deploy a search vehicle based on data collected by several independent researchers over the past 10 years. If any unusual phenomena are detected, the drone will check back to take a sonar photo.
Former Australian Navy officer Peter Waring, who was involved in the first search for MH370 11 years ago, answered a 60 Minute interview on the evening of January 2 that Ocean Infinity is using advanced technology.
The new Ocean Infinity truly represent a major shift in maritime technology, like the shift from sailing to steam in the 1800s. This is a big step forward in maritime technology," he said.
The third search for MH370 is expected to take up to 6 weeks. Several key areas in the Indian Ocean will be reviewed, including an area previously overlooked due to steep terrain.
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Mr. Wallace noted that a large-scale search like MH370 poses many challenges because it has to be conducted over a large and dangerous sea area, with waves up to 20m high.
Mr. Waring pointed out that the MH370 search ship in the Indian Ocean has no anchorage and needs to travel for 6 or 7 days to get to the nearest port in Perth. "These are dangerous conditions. If something goes wrong, disaster will come very, very quickly" - he warned.
Waring said it is necessary to be more transparent in choosing a new search area right next to the area searched in the previous two searches. I want to see all the data they are using as a basis for this new study. That data should have been published, he said.
Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said on February 25 that the contract between the Malaysian government and Ocean Infinity is being negotiated, but the company has proactively deployed search vessels in advance. They have collected all the data and believe the search area is more trustworthy now, he said.
The Malaysian government said Ocean Infinity will search for 18 months. Only when the wreckage of MH370 was found did Ocean Infinity receive $70 million.
MH370 was last seen on military radar about 90 minutes after takeoff, while flying westward across the Strait of Malacca, between Malaysia and Indonesia. Fragments of MH370 have been found near Tan nar and Mozambique.
