Naval expert issues dire warning about new search for MH370

A fresh search for doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 off Australian waters 'could turn catastrophic very, very quickly', experts have warned.

Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers, including six Australians, vanished after departing Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8, 2014.

Previous searches have scoured 200,000 square kilometres of ocean to no avail.

Now, a much-anticipated third search effort is underway in a previously unprobed 15,000 square kilometre stretch of the Indian Ocean about 1,500km of the coast of Perth.

British-American robotics firm Ocean Infinity have their vessel, Armada 7806, poised in the area waiting to dispatch their autonomous undersea drones to the sea floor six kilometres below.

The drones will scan the sea floor, report anomalies, and are capable of taking images which can be sent back to searchers on board the vessel.

It's believed the company will hone in on a zone near the previously scoured 'seventh arc', where th...
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