Seabed Constructor – on loan by Ocean infinity – sailed of to search for MH370
The strange ship’s name is Seabed Constructor. She is a Norwegian research vessel, built in 2014 and owned by Swire Seabed, a dredging and surveying firm in Bergen. At the moment, though, she is leased to Ocean Infinity, a company based in Houston, Texas. And the task Ocean Infinity has hired her for is a hard one: to find whatever is left of flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER that left Kuala Lumpur on March 8th 2014 with 239 people on board and vanished over the Indian Ocean.
EDIT (180106):
Confirmation of approval from the Malaysian gov appeared today in the press
Some more detail about the search campaign:
Now a team involving Inmarsat, a London-based global satellite network, Boeing, Australian air accident investigators and an American exploration company that has leased the world’s most advanced civilian ocean-survey ship, have joined forces to launch a new search.
A new search for MH370 is about to startGetty
A new search for the missing flight MH370 is poised to start
The survey ship, which has a large helicopter landing pad, an array of spherical antennae, a recovery crane that can lift 250 tonnes rising from the stern and is equipped with a fleet of underwater drones, left Durban, South Africa, four days ago and is heading to the Indian Ocean.
Experts in London believe the wreckage of the plane is most likely lying along latitude 35 degree south, which is north of the previous search area at a depth of between 5-6 kilometres.
The ship is expected to start searching for the airliner in about 10 days.
90 days to find the plane.
Source:
The Economist.com
Express.co.uk
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