Put it in your flight planner from where it went missing then was sighted (if it was sighted ) in Maldives from where it was last known and you end up DIRECT LINE TO Somalia.
Why did the US Navy ships stop looking and go West with 7th fleet.
It's around 1700nm from the Maldives to Mogadishu in Somalia. IF it was at the Maldives at 0615 local (0915 KL) there would have been an additional 0911 ping (which has not been reported, and the 0811 ping would not have been along the arc shown unless that ping arc was a false report,
Apart from which, if it were only as far west as the Maldives, 7 hours after it went missing, then it must have been going very slowly (~250 knots), and probably would not have had enough fuel to make it much further west, anyway.