Over 12 hours since debris sighted SE of Perth and STILL nothing?

[Bo-4]

Last night CNN's Aussie correspondent said there was a merchant ship within short distance of the large objects seen in satellite photo. Dozens of ships and planes have arrived since. And they can't confirm or deny the floaters as being part of debris field by now?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-possible-debris-from-missing-plane-spotted/

 

[Minotaur]

Fingers crossed this is it as the poor survivors need closure. I hope whatever it is they find it soon.

 

[Alinvegas]

Last night CNN's Aussie correspondent said there was a merchant ship within short distance of the large objects seen in satellite photo. Dozens of ships and planes have arrived since. And they can't confirm or deny the floaters as being part of debris field by now?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-possible-debris-from-missing-plane-spotted/

Bad weather. 25' waves and heavy winds with cloud cover.

 

[as seen on tv]

um - its night there. plus there is low cloud cover and rain. the "orion" which surveyed the area in daylight said the cloud cover was so low that visibility was minimal

 

[Bo-4]

Bad weather. 25' waves and heavy winds with cloud cover.

Really Al? --- last night they said 9 foot swells and that the storm was moving out with decent weather for the next few days.

Meh, if i was one of those family members i'd have lost my mind by now too!

 

[Alinvegas]

Really Al? --- last night they said 9 foot swells and that the storm was moving out with decent weather for the next few days.

Meh, if i was one of those family members i'd have lost my mind by now too!

agreed. Can't believe it took this long to find anything. Makes one wonder if it is connected at all. If that stuff floating is the plane, it's been floating for two weeks.

 

[Bo-4]

um - its night there. plus there is low cloud cover and rain. the "orion" which surveyed the area in daylight said the cloud cover was so low that visibility was minimal

I'll buy the cloud cover but not darkness. Some of those ships have some pretty amazing lighting. I mean, how hard is it to find a 75 foot object pinpointed a short while earlier via satellite?

Okay fine, it can be hard in the dark with cloud cover but enough is enough.

 

[as seen on tv]

agreed. Can't believe it took this long to find anything. Makes one wonder if it is connected at all. If that stuff floating is the plane, it's been floating for two weeks.

some ex FBI guy on the news this morning said it looked like "shipping container" to him. the problem with that theory is that this location is nowhere near any shipping lanes. that's why the pilot may have "turned left and south" . . . its not near anything, if you want to hide your plane for a long time.

- north and west is over 25 countries
- north and east is directly into the main pacific shipping routes
- south and east is towards australia.

 

[as seen on tv]

I'll buy the cloud cover but not darkness. Some of those ships have some pretty amazing lighting. I mean, how hard is it to find a 75 foot object pinpointed a short while earlier via satellite?

Okay fine, it can be hard in the dark with cloud cover but enough is enough.

there are no ships in the vicinty. the nearest one won't arrive for at least 24 hours. it's a norwegian flagged "car carrier" without any sophisticated search equipment. their mission is to look for life rafts/survivors - not attempt recovery of any debris.

 

[Alinvegas]

some ex FBI guy on the news this morning said it looked like "shipping container" to him. the problem with that theory is that this location is nowhere near any shipping lanes. that's why the pilot may have "turned left and south" . . . its not near anything, if you want to hide your plane for a long time.

- north and west is over 25 countries
- north and east is directly into the main pacific shipping routes
- south and east is towards australia.

the currents in the indian ocean run counter clockwise. After two weeks this could have been dumped out of just about anywhere from India, Malaysia etc.

 

[as seen on tv]

the currents in the indian ocean run counter clockwise. After two weeks this could have been dumped out of just about anywhere from India, Malaysia etc.

in that time frame they could have gone a couple hundred miles, not a couple of thousand. the debris location is eerily close to the projected flight path to where MH370 would have run out of fuel - about 200 miles east of it.

 

[Bo-4]

there are no ships in the vicinty. the nearest one won't arrive for at least 24 hours. it's a norwegian flagged "car carrier" without any sophisticated search equipment. their mission is to look for life rafts/survivors - not attempt recovery of any debris.

Wow, that's not the way they made it sound last night. Thanks!

 

[Alinvegas]

in that time frame they could have gone a couple hundred miles, not a couple of thousand. the debris location is eerily close to the projected flight path to where MH370 would have run out of fuel - about 200 miles east of it.

The current moves at 2.5 meters per second. That is approx. 134 miles per day.

 

[crowfoot]

Last night CNN's Aussie correspondent said there was a merchant ship within short distance of the large objects seen in satellite photo. Dozens of ships and planes have arrived since. And they can't confirm or deny the floaters as being part of debris field by now?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-possible-debris-from-missing-plane-spotted/

and the western nations were so quick to ridicule the malaysians! lol

 

[Minotaur]

in that time frame they could have gone a couple hundred miles, not a couple of thousand. the debris location is eerily close to the projected flight path to where MH370 would have run out of fuel - about 200 miles east of it.

Sad. That matches one theory and makes it possible that it could be closure with at least one answer to this horrid puzzle.

 

[Bo-4]

The current moves at 2.5 meters per second. That is approx. 134 miles per day.

Yipes, they'd better get another bead on those floaters from that satellite!

 

[Alinvegas]

Wow, that's not the way they made it sound last night. Thanks!

Arnold Gordon, a professor of ocean and climate physics at Columbia University, said search crews will have to endure ten to 20-foot waves and strong winds in the area where the objects were spotted.

 

[Minotaur]

One expert said one piece of debris is twice the size of the largest crate made so whatever it is it may not be a crate.

 

[crowfoot]

some ex FBI guy on the news this morning said it looked like "shipping container" to him. the problem with that theory is that this location is nowhere near any shipping lanes. that's why the pilot may have "turned left and south" . . . its not near anything, if you want to hide your plane for a long time.

- north and west is over 25 countries
- north and east is directly into the main pacific shipping routes
- south and east is towards australia.

lol! shipping containers are required to stay in the shipping lanes??

 

[crowfoot]

The current moves at 2.5 meters per second. That is approx. 134 miles per day.

The speed of these current varies based on the gyres, or currents that are kept in motion by prevailing winds. Each gyre consists of four currents. Open-ocean, east-west currents form the gyre's northern and southern limbs and boundary currents sitting nearly parallel to the continental margins, generally oriented north south, join these gyres. The North Pacific Current or the North and South Equatorial currents travel at speed of 0.03 to 0.06 m/s. The Gulf Stream, and the Kuroshio Currents flow with speed up to 0.4 to 1.2 m/s. California Currents and the Canary Current travel at 0.03 to 0.07 m/s.

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/EugeneStatnikov.shtml