Search teams will face a challenging task in locating flight MH370’s black box as conditions in the southern Indian Ocean are among the world’s roughest, The Wall Street Journal reported today. The business daily said the hunt for plane debris by search and rescue personnel was suspended yesterday due to gale winds and sea swells, at least four metres high. "Such weather conditions made it too dangerous for aircraft and ships to continue with the search and rescue," WSJ reported. The paper quoted Australian Defence Minister David Johnston as saying that the southern part of the Indian Ocean had shipwrecked many vessels in Western Australia. Johnston told WSJ that there are 20- to 30-metre-high waves which can make conditions very dangerous. The report said search and rescue crews have been working on a tight deadline to pinpoint the wreckage of MH370 as the black box – which emits signals that can indicate the plane’s location from thousands of yards away – will stop functioning after 30 days. The hunt for MH370 has already entered its third week without any tangible success. Despite sightings of suspected debris by aircrew, there had been no sign of MH370. "You could not pick a worse place in the world for MH370 to go down," Charitha Pattiaratchi told WSJ. Pattiaratchi is a professor at the University of Western Australia's Ocean Institute. However, WSJ reported that it was not mission impossible as the salvage vessel which may lead the search for MH370 in the Indian Ocean had a good track record in deep sea recovery. It said this included retrieving a body from a Black Hawk helicopter, which crashed in deep waters off the island of Fiji in 2007. It said the Seahorse Standard, a commercial ship chartered by the Australian navy, was likely to be deployed in the search for MH370 by the United States navy. The sturdy 72-meter-long vessel—equipped with sonar and salvages gear, including a remotely operated underwater vehicle—would be able to carry any wreckage to port where it could be examined by aviation investigators. It also carries a crew of up to 60 and can remain at sea for up to 100 days. – March 26, 2014. http://www.themalaysianinsider.c ... ack-box-says-report
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