Given the amount of satellite data that various countries collect these days I find it ridiculous that we are spending tax payers money for ocean floor survey for a foreign registered airliner. Given that the ATSB would not cough up to go and get Pel Air's Black Boxes why are we now mapping the Indian Ocean?
I bet MI 6 or the CIA would have some indication of what went on why dont our people talk to their people and cut down this wild Goose chase.
Unless of course this is part of the strategy for whatever reason.