19th Century Shipwreck Discovered by Australians Still Looking for MH370

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http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/19th-century-shipwreck-discovered-by-australians-still-1752712757



Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously disappeared on March 8, 2014—nearly two years ago, if you can believe it. And while Australian researchers still haven’t found the plane, they recently discovered a shipwreck dating back to the 19th century.

The Australians discovered an anomaly on the floor of the Indian Ocean back in December and deployed an unmanned submarine on January 2nd to take high-resolution sonar pictures, like the one you see above. In fact, this is the second 19th century shipwreck discovered by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau in the past two years during their efforts to find the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had 239 passengers aboard and is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean somewhere west of Australia. No one is quite sure of the reason for the crash, though a wing segment from the Boeing 777 was finally found washed up on the island of La Réunion back in July of 2015.

We’ll likely never know the name of the newly discovered lonely ship that’s currently slumbering at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

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Rest in peace you sailors. A ship going down out out in the middle of the Indian Ocean back in the 19th century probably didn't have any survivors.

[kiva]

1. Thanks for posting

an interesting story.

[Omaha Steve]

2. Thanks for posting

K&R!

OS

[FLPanhandle]

3. The technology is so cool now

Also, I wasn't aware they were still searching for Flight 370