Show Notes
In the last episode we talked about how we couldn’t tell what Ocean Infinity was planning, because they weren’t saying anything publicly and the ship tasked with searching the seabed seemed to heading off to South Africa.Well, fortunately, that didn’t happen. Instead, Armada 78 06 sailed to a stretch of ocean near the 7th arc, arriving there on Tuesday March 11, and it deployed its three search AUVs, which it continues to do today, Saturday March 15.But what comes next?With still no information coming out of Ocean Infinity or the Malaysia government, all we can do is read the tea leaves, and infer what their strategy is from the surface movement of the ship. There’s no getting around it: what we’re talking about is informed gueswork, but at least the picture is a lot clearer than it was a week ago. And basically, the news is quite good. In today’s episode I explain why. Get full access to Finding MH370 at www.deepdivemh370.com/subscribe
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