Originally Posted by
James7
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Something told them to look there...
I thought it was the 'boring' work of ongoing detail analysis of the Inmarsat data coupled with more refined analysis of 777 performance characteristics that fit to the pattern of known arcs and dopplers that lead to deploying listening assets in the 'small arc' where Haixun 01 and Ocean Shield were operating.
It seems quite likely that after a lot more hard analysis of the acoustic data they will have localised a reasonable search area and then in several weeks will have found the wreckage with the side scan sonar.
Nothing particularly sinister in all of this analysis and thinking taking a lot of time.