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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2015, 08:56 PM Feb 2015

MH370 search finds man made objects, none from jet



Also overlooked in the Senate Estimates treasure trove last night was news that the MH370 search being run by Australia, has found what appear to be man made objects as large as shipping containers.

The ATSB crash investigator directing the search operations, Peter Foley said eight such level two objects had been detected by sonar scanning.

There had been about 300 detections of objects that might be man made at what he termed level three findings, while there had bee no level one detections, which would be objects that might be part of an aircraft debris field and would require immediate close up investigation.

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It is statistically probably that discoveries of man made objects not from MH370 would vastly outnumber identifiable parts of the wreckage even if the location of the point of impact with the ocean was known with a high degree of precision.

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2015/02/25/mh370-search-finds-man-made-objects-none-from-jet/
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MH370 search finds man made objects, none from jet (Original Post) jakeXT Feb 2015 OP
There's some islands Turbineguy Feb 2015 #1
Who did it ... France, Australia or somebody else ? jakeXT Feb 2015 #2
The French Southern and Antartic Islands Turbineguy Feb 2015 #3
I meant which country did the dumping /nt jakeXT Feb 2015 #4
The French Turbineguy Feb 2015 #5

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
2. Who did it ... France, Australia or somebody else ?
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 06:25 AM
Feb 2015

The US used nearby locations to dump their stuff



Waste Waters

In the decades after World War II, the U.S. government and licensees dumped tens of thousands of containers of radioactive waste at dozens of dump sites in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, often sealed in stainless steel drums that were expected to eventually deteriorate. A Journal review of federal and other records shows there are questions about the exact locations, contents and condition of waste containers, along with concerns about potential threats to the environment and public health if seafood gets contaminated. Federal officials say that testing done over the years hasn’t produced evidence of harm.

Over the years, federal officials have put the number of dump sites at from 29 to more than 60, with the vast majority of waste going to a handful of locations. (Some sites may have been designated without ever being used.) In 1980, the Committee to Bridge the Gap, an environmentalist group, assembled a list of 50 offshore nuclear dump sites, with specific coordinates for each site. Learn more by browsing the interactive graphic below and reading the accompanying story.

http://projects.wsj.com/waste-lands/extras/waste-waters/

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