Originally Posted by
polarbreeze
I notice that HMS Echo is still searching in that southern area. Anyone know what that's all about?
I suggest you read the transcript of the
JACC press conference posted in the news thread. Here's an extract of the Q&A session.
Question: Have you got any further information from the Chinese ship Haixun 01 and have you analysed the data acquired by that ship?
Angus Houston: I understand there has been no further detections in the area where the Chinese vessel Haixun 01 assisted by HMS Echo, which is an oceanographic vessel from the Royal Navy, I believe they haven't made any further detections. In terms of the analysis of the signals that it picked up, I'll come back to you on that. I'm not sure where we're at with that. I haven't had any advice that the analysis is completed at this stage.
Angus Houston: Well, what we're doing, we are not putting all our eggs in one basket, okay? We're continuing with all the other activities. We're continuing to look where Haixun 01 is, but we're also doing a much more intense visual search, a visual search where the track spacing, if you understand that, what an aircraft does, it's assigned an area to search and then it will design a pattern with very small spacing and it will cover the area very extensively and very intensively.