Underwater sonar equipment turned up a strange object more than two miles beneath the waves just before Christmas. Earlier this month they sent down an unmanned submarine to take a picture. Experts at the Western Australian Museum think it is a 19th-century ship made of metal. This is the second uncharted shipwreck found miles beneath the waves during the search for the missing plane. Last year, investigators released ghostly images of man-made debris scattered along the sea floor, including what is clearly an old anchor.
The hunt for MH370 no longer makes headlines, but what some have described as the most complex search in history has continued for almost two years. Three ships are methodically combing the belly of the southern Indian Ocean. Before this search, scientists knew more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of this stretch of water, so it is not surprising that they keep revealing secrets.
Compare it to the remains of ship discovered during the search in March of 2015. They were discovered at a depth of 2.5 miles, so the ship had a little longer to fall, but all that’s left of it is an anchor, some black balls that are probably lumps of coal and some unidentified man-made objects including a rectangle about 20 feet long.
They are confident they are looking in the right place after a piece of a wing from MH370 was washed up on an Indian Ocean island thousands of miles away. Oceanographers have modelled the way the sea would have moved the fragment, and how long it would have taken to reach Reunion island. They say it all points to the aircraft coming down where they are currently looking, although no-one has any idea why it ended up so far off course. The plane had 239 people on board and was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014 when air traffic controllers lost contact with it.
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