The bodies are all very tightly grouped together. Remarkably so after 10 days in the open sea
That was also my impression.
The drift of the bodies represented a rather sharply shaped Funnel.
What I don't understand:
Why wasn't the First Search performed in an opposite direction funnel shape of let's say 20 -30° either side beginning around the first body found going opposite direction of the center of the body drift funnel i.e. pretty much south from there.
From my point of view it is not extremely probable that the drift direction during the first six days was in a completely different direction and the bodies still being rather close to each other after June 6th.
You see it with the buoys.
When the direction changes dramatically the drifting objects won't end up close together.
The bodies being relatively close together after 10 days points to a rather constant drift for me.
Yes that would not be a really systematic box search, but if you lost some personal papers and found some in the shape the bodies were found, how would you search for them ?
regards,
henra