The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which mysteriously disappeared six months ago, has resumed in the southern Indian Ocean, about 1,800 miles off the coast of Australia.
The ship, the GO Phoenix, began sweeping the area on Monday with a sonar device called a towfish. Another ship, the Fugro, is docked in Fremantle, Australia at the moment and being fitted with the technology that GO Phoenix already carries. Fugro will join the hunt on Oct. 17. A third will also join the hunt later this month.
The Australia Transport Safety Board is overseeing the search, which could take up to a year, it said. After six months, they are still hoping to solve one of the greatest - if not the greatest - commercial aviation mysteries in history.
MH370 left Kuala Lumpur on the night of March 8 headed for Beijing. It veered violently off-course, turning completely south before air traffic controllers lost communications for it. More than14 countries immediately combined efforts to conduct a search for the missing plane, but to no avail.
The search took a break last month so that the Fugro could map about 110,000 square miles of ocean floor in the new search area in preparation for this latest effort.
"The recently acquired (underwater survey) data has revealed many of these seabed features for the first time," the ATSB said in a statement. "The survey also reveals finer features that were not visible in previous, low-resolution survey data. … The complexities surrounding the search cannot be understated. It involves vast areas of the Indian Ocean with only limited known data and aircraft flight information."
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