Images and video show MH370 underwater search area — mashable.com

The organisation mapping the seafloor in the search for the wreckage of MH370, has released a video and images showing the underwater area it is exploring. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is leading the search in the southern Indian Ocean for the Boeing-777 aircraft that disappeared on Mar. 8 while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China, with 239 people on board. ATSB with Geoscience Australia used bathymetry, the study and mapping of the seafloor by obtaining measurements of the depth of the ocean, before the search for MH370 began. The survey vessels spent months at sea with multibeam sonar, gathering high-resolution data so the search could be undertaken in a safe and effective manner.

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