While searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, four ancient wrecks were discovered in the same area where MH370 is believed to be missing.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been missing for nearly four years and investigators are still searching the sea for any sign of it. Although some pieces of the plane have been found after it washed up on the Indian Ocean coast, the wreckage has so far not been found.
The chest in the ship graveyard.
However, recently, investigators have found four wrecks in the same area looking for MH370, DailyMail reported.
The first ship was found, badly damaged, but still identifiable, containing a mysterious chest. This ship is located 4km below the surface of the ocean, in an area known as Shipwreck #1 . What is found is believed to be the remains of a wooden ship, loaded with coal, from the 1800s.
Nearby is Shipwreck #2 , where the SV Inca is believed to be. This Peruvian cargo ship mysteriously disappeared while en route to Sydney, Australia in 1911.
Both wrecks lie south of the current MH370 search area, which lies along Arc 7, more than 2,000km west of the Australian coast.
Shipwreck #3 was found 3,700 meters below sea level and is believed to be a fishing vessel, still intact and fully net. Shipwreck #4 is described as a small wooden fishing boat.
A total of four wrecks were found by Fugro, the company responsible for the search for MH370.
What is found is believed to be the remains of a wooden ship, loaded with coal, from the 1800s.
According to News.com.au, the search vessel for MH370, the Constructor, turned off its automatic identification system (AIS) when it approached Shipwreck #1 and Shipwreck #1 on January 31. The fact that the Constructor ship mysteriously disappeared for 80 hours made many people think of MH370.
Flight MH370 disappeared from radar screens less than an hour after takeoff. The plane took off from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Beijing (China) with 239 people on board.
Initially, the search team thought they had found MH370. However, upon closer inspection, they found a graveyard of shipwrecks. “We are very excited,” Fugro CEO Paul Kennedy said at a conference in Perth, Australia.