Search for MH370 uncovers shipwreck in 4km of water
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[quote]The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has turned up the unexpected discovery of a shipwreck on the sea floor of the southern Indian Ocean.
Flight MH370 disappeared without a trace in March last year while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, but is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean off Australia's west coast.
Four vessels owned by Dutch engineering firm Fugro, equipped with sophisticated underwater drones, have already searched more than 60 per cent of the previously unmapped 60,000-square-kilometre expanse of sea floor.
Last month the search area was doubled.
This week the Joint Agency Coordination Centre said the wreck of a ship had been found about 4 kilometres below the surface and more than 1,000kms off Western Australia.
At this stage, authorities know little about the wreck, but said the debris was man-made and that images would be handed to marine archaeologists for identification.[/quote]
[url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-13/search-for-missing-mh370-plane-discovers-shipwreck/6467624[/url]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ZSscza4.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/DwOkrOT.jpg[/img]
I like how detailed the sonar mapping is.
That's sonar mapping? Holy fuck it looks like a picture.
Now I look at it more closely it might not be sonar mapping.
I could however be a false colour rendered imaged based on several data sources including sonar mapping
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Jp1VGif.jpg[/img]
What kind of scientist released these images without a scale?
Is that the anchor in the top pic? Neat!
[QUOTE=Killuah;47715989]What kind of scientist released these images without a scale?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Occlusion;47716011]Is that the anchor in the top pic? Neat![/QUOTE]
Yup, in my head the pieces were much much bigger and more vague before you pointed out the anchor.
A scale would have helped a LOT of giving a good impression about the sonar mapping detail.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Jp1VGif.jpg[/t]
Well that's obviously the ships bell in the center there and the ring in the top left looks like its off of a large barrel, perhaps the one containing the water supply?
[QUOTE=Killuah;47715989]What kind of scientist released these images without a scale?[/QUOTE]
There might have been a scale, since they're usually in the corner of things like that, but all i see are 'watermarks', which could have covered it up.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/DwOkrOT.jpg[/img]
You can see crabs on the wreck which is pretty cool.
That's probably multibeam backscatter imagery, usually a lot better than side scan sonar. I don't think you'd be able to see that much detail on a 3d digital terrain model at that depth, even if it was probably done by an RV.
These things do come with a scale when presented to a client, but this is probably just a WIP screengrab with a watermark on it. I used to get asked for this stuff all the time when I worked in the industry.
Imagine how much more we could find out just because they were searching for something else!
Hopefully not cthulhu.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;47716794][img]http://i.imgur.com/DwOkrOT.jpg[/img]
You can see crabs on the wreck which is pretty cool.[/QUOTE]
Honestly, I thought they were Octopi
Old shipwrecks creep me out. Just sitting there. Lost in time.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;47716876]Honestly, I thought they were Octopi[/QUOTE]
It's neither. They look like deep sea corals. Some kind of feather duster or anemone. Probably an anemone.
I wonder if I can translate the B/W based upon height into a 3D model
[QUOTE=Adlertag1940;47718244]I wonder if I can translate the B/W based upon height into a 3D model[/QUOTE]
Nope
Those crabs would be like 100 feet tall, there's no accurate height information in that image
I'm surprised this is the first one they found. Hopefully they can find some more information about it, anyway.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;47716876]Honestly, I thought they were Octopi[/QUOTE]
Looked more like some underwanter flora.
[QUOTE=DMGaina;47718752]Looked more like some underwanter flora.[/QUOTE]
sorry but thats definitely a crab.
Apparently it's actually a starfish.
[editline]14th May 2015[/editline]
The black rocks are apparently coal.
Maybe in a hundred years time a tourist ship re-entering from space will disappear, and we discover the wreck of MH370 while searching for that ship.
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