Originally Posted by
HeyIts007
Not sure, but what I do believe is that the US military have the airborne drone technology to conduct arial drone searches quickly. Thus they could have been checking out near all of the suspect areas for surface debris fairly promptly. With a Global Hawk RQ-4A or RQ-4A BAMS drone. They have high resolution cameras, approx. 1 metre resolution capable. They can search 40,000 square miles ( 200 x 200 miles ) in 24 hours.
Not much good for searching underwater. There are far more important national security priorities that these assets get assigned to. That is what those UAV's were built and paid for.