The Rundown Robotics: Robots hunt MH370 in new deep-sea search

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🚤 Robots hunt MH370 in new deep-sea search
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The Rundown: Malaysia is now deploying a private robot fleet into the Indian Ocean for another crack at the MH370 mystery, more than a decade after the Boeing 777 vanished with 239 people aboard.
The details:
Malaysia’s transport ministry says Texas-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity will restart a deep-sea search for MH370 later this month.The Malaysian government will pay Ocean Infinity a fee of $70M if its 18‑month search locates the wreckage. Malaysia approved Ocean Infinity’s mission in March, but the search was suspended after bad weather hit a new 15K-square-km search area. Ocean Infinity’s CEO says the firm has significantly upgraded its subsea tech since its unsuccessful 2018 search.
Why it matters: The search represents a high-stakes bet on autonomous underwater systems that have matured dramatically since 2018, when Ocean Infinity last tried and came up empty. Success would close aviation’s most confounding cold case while demonstrating how far deep-sea robotics has advanced in a few years.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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