Bobman84
yup waiting for the weather to clear. Its pretty ordinary weather when the Australian Navy withdraws from the area to calmer waters until it clears.
Its pretty clear from the reports and my understanding of the area, the more assets you use and the more you look in these parts the more you will find, it's a really wild part of the ocean with winds and currents that run unrestricted by any land around the world.
it will be carrying years of debris that has fallen off ships or swept off beaches
Hardly anybody ever goes down that way for fun or commerce, except the crazy round the world yachting crazies and they have a horizon of less than a couple of miles. Usually the first they know there is a large piece of debris seatainer or such like is when they hit it.
IMHO they are better off concentrating searching for a pinger.
And I hope they haven't given up on the Northern end.