Southern Ocean Hunt

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  Shipwrecks Found During MH370 Search Identified As 19th Century Merchant Vessels

  Two shipwrecks found during the hunt for missing flight MH370 in the remote Southern Ocean were identified Thursday as 19th century merchant vessels carrying coal, each crewed by up to 30 people.

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  MH370 Hunters To Probe Underwater Objects: Report

  Investigators will deploy an underwater vehicle to take a closer look at objects found during a sonar survey of the southern Indian Ocean in the hunt for MH370, Australia said today, as it extended the search into next year.

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  Sea Shepherd Warns Japan Against Resuming Whaling

  Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd today warned Japan against resuming "research" whaling in the Antarctic while calling on the Australian government to intervene.

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  Wing Part May be Confirmed as From MH370 This Week: Australia

  Australia on Wednesday said official word on whether a washed-up plane part is from flight MH370 is expected this week, while reiterating it will continue hunting for the main debris field in the southern Indian Ocean.

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  Japan Confirms Plans to Resume Whale Hunt

  Japan's chief whaling negotiator confirmed today its ships would return to the Antarctic this year, despite a call by global regulators to provide more evidence that the hunt has a scientific purpose.

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  Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search Finds Uncharted Shipwreck

  The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has uncovered a previously uncharted shipwreck, leading officials to say Wednesday that if the plane is in their search zone they will find it.

• New Underwater Discoveries in Hunt for MH370

  Remnants of volcanoes, towering ridges and deep trenches have been discovered on the seabed of the southern Indian Ocean by experts mapping the underwater terrain as part of the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

• Searchers Undecided Who Will Pay for Airliner Hunt

  Countries searching for the missing Malaysian plane have yet to agree on how to share costs, an Australian search leader said Tuesday.

• Damaged Underwater Vehicle for MH370 Hunt Reaches Port

  The ADV Ocean Shield and the Bluefin-21 have been deployed for the ongoing search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia.

• New signal spurs search for missing MH370 black boxes

  The logging of a fifth signal spurred on Friday's hunt for missing Malaysian airliner MH370 as search crews work round-the-clock to find elusive wreckage in the southern Indian Ocean.

• Hunt for MH370 'pings' will take days before sub launch

  Ships searching for underwater signals from Flight MH370 have heard no more "pings" and will spend several more days trying to pinpoint a crash site.

• Possible signals from lost Malaysia Airlines jet's black boxes heard

  Underwater sounds detected by a ship searching the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes, an Australian official said Monday, dubbing it "a most promising lead" in the month-long hunt for the vanished plane.

• Biggest search yet for Malaysian jet in Indian Ocean

  Searchers on Saturday launched the most intensive hunt yet in the southern Indian Ocean, trying to find the plane's black box recorders before their batteries run out.

• Australia hopeful as more items pulled from sea

  Australia's prime minister said on Sunday he was hopeful a clue will emerge soon to narrow the hunt for Flight 370, as more objects were pulled from the southern Indian Ocean and checked to see if they were part of the plane that went missing more than three weeks ago.

• Hope sinks, despair floats in bleak hunt for plane

  Not one object has been recovered from the missing airliner that Malaysian officials are now convinced plunged into the southern Indian Ocean 17 days ago. Some of the pieces are likely 3,500 meters (11,500 feet) underwater. Others are bobbing in a fickle system of currents that one oceanographer compares to a pinball machine. And by now, they could...