[aussie500]

I am no expert true but I think some of those opinions on the quality of the Fugro work are a bit unfair. They have plenty of experience at mapping, have mapped around other parts of the Australian coast. And frankly I doubt that many doing the complaining have the experience mapping in those sorts of harsh conditions. Go Phoenix got it easy.

What we saw of the Fugro work looked just fine to me, you can see where the strips overlap, nothing missing on the edges. They have another on board gadget that scans the middle of each strip. They put the pretty pictures together there will be no gaps. And yes they will be mowing that 7th arc in little tiny 2.3km(think that was it)strips, it has to be high res to recognize what they are looking for. Anyone can find a link to a better idea, would love to see it. That is the limit of the technology, it is only how they get it scanned that could be different. I think an AUV might be a bit faster and can get in more places, but still same size strip.


And I have yet to see any routinely released data from Go Phoenix, all I saw was 1 sonar image. Where do we see all these other interesting images they have released? Before the search started they had a few photo's released showing scans, but I am not sure they had actually searched anything yet. Pretty sure not much from anyone is going to be released for a fair while. They will be sitting there studying it, then there will no doubt be others checking it to make sure it is suitable for public viewing.

The examples of the rocks they thought might be something man made were from the Fugro team were they not? Shipwreck was the Fugro team, Equator found it, Supporter's AUV got some nice B&W photo's for all the experts and media to admire. They seem more than capable of finding a B777 if it was there.