Comments on: How currents pushed debris from the missing Malaysian Air flight across the Indian Ocean to Réunion https://deepseanews.com/2015/07/how-currents-pushed-debris-from-the-missing-malaysian-air-flight-across-the-indian-ocean-to-reunion/ All the news on the Earth's largest environment. Fri, 04 Sep 2015 03:30:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: George Simmons https://deepseanews.com/2015/07/how-currents-pushed-debris-from-the-missing-malaysian-air-flight-across-the-indian-ocean-to-reunion/#comment-17055 Fri, 04 Sep 2015 03:30:22 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=55247#comment-17055 In reply to Dr. Martini.

Hi Dr Martini
I just had a look at your article on Indian ocean currents and the effects it my have had on the wreckage of flight MH370.
I agree with most of your findings on the movement of water around the Indian Ocean but one I’m not sure of.
On May 2013 a 8 metre Leisure Cat fishing boat capsized of Exmouth WA Australia and was lost. After only 8 months it washed up on the Island of Mayotte in between Madagascar and Africa. The time it can take is a lot less than in your article, so I hope this can help.
Regards George Simmons
Exmouth Marine Rescue
Western Australia

]]> By: Darryl Biech https://deepseanews.com/2015/07/how-currents-pushed-debris-from-the-missing-malaysian-air-flight-across-the-indian-ocean-to-reunion/#comment-17051 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:23:02 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=55247#comment-17051 There is another possibility as when MH370 went West it may have continued in that direction as there was a sighting of a large jet flying suspiciously low over the Maldives (engines howling…possibly low on fuel) that may have been MH 370 and if it crashed 100-200 nautical miles South to SW of the Maldives the currents from there would also send debris on the SW current from there to Reunion Island. The only evidence against this is the satellite data that indicates it crashed in the vicinity of the main search region.

]]> By: Dr. Martini https://deepseanews.com/2015/07/how-currents-pushed-debris-from-the-missing-malaysian-air-flight-across-the-indian-ocean-to-reunion/#comment-16955 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 04:01:38 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=55247#comment-16955 In reply to Lierman.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they found some there. Then again I also wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t. There are so many factors that determine whether or not marine debris end up washing on land.

]]> By: Lierman https://deepseanews.com/2015/07/how-currents-pushed-debris-from-the-missing-malaysian-air-flight-across-the-indian-ocean-to-reunion/#comment-16925 Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:19:52 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=55247#comment-16925 Shouldn’t we find some on Diego Garcia too that may have landed monthes ago?

]]> By: Dr. Martini https://deepseanews.com/2015/07/how-currents-pushed-debris-from-the-missing-malaysian-air-flight-across-the-indian-ocean-to-reunion/#comment-16827 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:50:49 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=55247#comment-16827 In reply to Dirk Jan Barreveld.

Investigators had the exact same idea! They are just starting to look in those regions as well. It might have just been easier to initially find the flaperon on Réunion as there are no fringing reefs capturing debris before washing ashore on beaches frequented by humans.

]]> By: Dirk Jan Barreveld https://deepseanews.com/2015/07/how-currents-pushed-debris-from-the-missing-malaysian-air-flight-across-the-indian-ocean-to-reunion/#comment-16817 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 06:07:30 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=55247#comment-16817 In reply to Bob.

I am surprised that everyone is now looking at Reunion, looking at the pattern of the South Equatorial Current is it far more logical to find debris on Mauritius (which is also larger than Reunion) Tromelin, Chucuito, Cargados Carajos or any of the other smaller atols. Actually Reunion is the last of the chain.

]]> By: Dr. Martini https://deepseanews.com/2015/07/how-currents-pushed-debris-from-the-missing-malaysian-air-flight-across-the-indian-ocean-to-reunion/#comment-16816 Sun, 02 Aug 2015 23:04:12 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=55247#comment-16816 In reply to Bob.

I’m sure he does know more about the Indian Ocean than I do! But no model, no matter how good it is, can “exactly predict” where the debris would go.

]]> By: Bob https://deepseanews.com/2015/07/how-currents-pushed-debris-from-the-missing-malaysian-air-flight-across-the-indian-ocean-to-reunion/#comment-16807 Sun, 02 Aug 2015 08:27:22 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=55247#comment-16807 does anyone here think Pattiarachi, who’s been studying the area for probably 30+ years, might know a little more than a recent graduate located in a completely different area with clearly little if any direct knowledge of the Indian Ocean?

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