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I wonder what other interesting things they'll discover doing the search. Surly they've already stumbled upon lots shipwrecks in the search for MH370?

by proee 9y ago

privong 9y ago
Here's an article about one: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/malaysia-airlines-searchers-find-sunken-ship-instead-180955256/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/malaysia-airlines-... ARCGIS had a fairly detailed visualization of the search and the data. At the bottom of the page, there are some examples of other things that were found: https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=038a72439bfa4d28b3dde81cc6ff3214 https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.htm... (HN comments for the latter link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14802105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14802105)
- anaganisk 9y ago
  Maybe one day they will find captain america
tajen 9y ago
Blaine Gibson[1] did find a lot of wreckage on the coast of Africa and complains that the investigation didn’t consider how close it could have come to Africa [2], which would have been associated with an entirely other flight path after going offline, and I don’t remember what was the bureau’s answer about that. [1] http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/asia/blaine-gibson-mh370/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/asia/blaine-gibson-mh370/index... [2] French TV documentary about this complaint: https://youtu.be/ir-PBqynwII https://youtu.be/ir-PBqynwII Bonus: Just found that: http://www.thehuntformh370.info/ http://www.thehuntformh370.info/
oh_sigh 9y ago
Probably not as many as you may think - first, consider the sheer scale of the Indian ocean. Second, open-ocean sailing only became commonplace in the last 200 years. Before then, if you were going from say Spice Islands to Zanzibar, you would hug the mainland Asian coast line as long as possible, except for "short" jumps across the Arabian sea and bay of bengal.

I wonder what other interesting things they'll discover doing the search. Surly they've already stumbled upon lots shipwrecks in the search for MH370?

by proee 9y ago

I wonder what other interesting things they'll discover doing the search. Surly they've already stumbled upon lots shipwrecks in the search for MH370?

privong 9y ago

Here's an article about one: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/malaysia-airlines-searchers-find-sunken-ship-instead-180955256/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/malaysia-airlines-... ARCGIS had a fairly detailed visualization of the search and the data. At the bottom of the page, there are some examples of other things that were found: https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=038a72439bfa4d28b3dde81cc6ff3214 https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.htm... (HN comments for the latter link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14802105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14802105)

anaganisk 9y ago
Maybe one day they will find captain america

tajen 9y ago

Blaine Gibson[1] did find a lot of wreckage on the coast of Africa and complains that the investigation didn’t consider how close it could have come to Africa [2], which would have been associated with an entirely other flight path after going offline, and I don’t remember what was the bureau’s answer about that. [1] http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/asia/blaine-gibson-mh370/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/asia/blaine-gibson-mh370/index... [2] French TV documentary about this complaint: https://youtu.be/ir-PBqynwII https://youtu.be/ir-PBqynwII Bonus: Just found that: http://www.thehuntformh370.info/ http://www.thehuntformh370.info/

oh_sigh 9y ago

Probably not as many as you may think - first, consider the sheer scale of the Indian ocean. Second, open-ocean sailing only became commonplace in the last 200 years. Before then, if you were going from say Spice Islands to Zanzibar, you would hug the mainland Asian coast line as long as possible, except for "short" jumps across the Arabian sea and bay of bengal.