Two search areas
I do not recall any pings ever having been heard in the search area some hundreds of kms NW of Ocean Shield, or any rationale justifying the concentration of ships there even though they are (mostly) within a current designated search area. Hai Xun 01 has been there for some time and is currently nearly stationary at 0.3kts with two other Chinese ships at 3.3 and 5.6. Yes seperation from Ocean Shield is a result but why the NW search zone and the activity there? Or are reasons simply not known?