Astra Mike makes a good point in closing:
quote "It is time to stop sweating the small stuff and consider the bigger picture"
The big picture now is the 29th May press release by JACC, where we are informed the next steps are as follows:
1. A review of all existing information and analysis to define a search zone of up to 60,000 square kilometres along the arc in the southern Indian Ocean.
2.Conducting a bathymetric survey to map the sea floor in the defined search area.
3. Acquiring the specialist services required for a comprehensive search of the sea floor in that area.
Simply put, this means.
1. Try and decide where to look next, then having made up their minds where to look,
2. have a peep to see where it is flat and where it is not, then
3. get the boys and their equipment on site.
It will take them till end of August to do No1 and at least another 12 months to do the rest.
Could it be that in the interim some debris may wash up on someone`s shores.