New hope in the hunt for MH370 as underwater research boss makes bold claim
A US-based deep-sea exploration company has given new hope to solving the decade-long MH370 mystery, saying it is capable of conducting the most comprehensive search yet for the missing plane.
March 8 marked ten years since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.
There were 239 people on board, including six Australians.
US company Ocean Infinity led a search in 2018 but could find no trace of the plane at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
CEO of Deep Sea Vision, Tony Romeo, is pictured on 60 Minutes
One of the drones Deep Sea Vision plans to use to search for MH370 is pictured
But Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo told 60 Minutes on Sunday that he believed his company was capable of making the breakthrough.
The company plans to send one of its underwater drones, the Hugin 6000, to the ocean floor to search for the missing plane.
“He’s flying 50 meters above the seabed and he’s just going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth,” Romeo told 60 Minutes on Sunday.
‘Big eyes, looking at everything it can see, sucking in data and storing it, coming back to the surface, we put a USB stick in it, get the data out and we look at it on a computer exactly as it looked .’
The company made headlines around the world earlier this year when Mr Romeo claimed the company had found Amelia Earhart’s plane at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Mr Romeo described the company’s technology as ‘incredible’, falling just short of being able to read a credit card number on the seabed.
The most persistent theory focused on the pilot – Zaharie Ahmad Shah (pictured) – and the suggestion that MH370’s disappearance was a deliberate act on his part.
He said the company’s modified drones could search four times the area covered in previous attempts to find MH370.
When asked if he thought he could find MH370, Romeo replied: “I think we can.
“I feel like we’ve proven our credibility, we’ve proven our competency,” he told 60 Minutes.
“We have proven that we can use equipment and use new techniques.”
Deep Sea Visions is preparing to submit a search proposal to the Malaysian government.
“And I believe the Malaysian government wants answers,” Romeo said.
“I refuse to believe that they don’t want a major accident, a major accident like this, to remain unsolved. It’s just not fair, it wouldn’t be fair to the families.”