The search for Malaysian Airlines MH370 has not gone very well, for lack of a better description. So far they’ve found absolutely nothing that has to do with the airplane. Interestingly, though, they may have found a shipwreck.

Spotted about 1000 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia, the MH370 search boats “detected several unusual objects” on the ocean floor.

Peter Foley, from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and head of the MH370 search said that they were very cautious about labelling it as a wreck.

There were characteristics of the contact that made it unlikely to be MH370, but there were also aspects that generated interest, multiple small bright reflections in a relatively small area of otherwise featureless seabed.

Another search boat was called in and images were taken by a “automated underwater vehicle” and analysed this week.

The images have managed to capture “several man made objects including an anchor, and a box-shaped object about six metres long. Black rocks scattered across the seabed are thought to be coal”.

I wonder if there is any pirate’s treasure down there…

[Source: Stuff]