JOHANNESBURG — A U.S.-based company has dispatched a ship into the Indian Ocean in hopes of resuming the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, even though the company doesn’t have a contract to do the job. The search vessel named Seabed Constructor left the South African port of Durban on Tuesday as part of the Ocean Infinity company’s plan to look for debris in the southern Indian Ocean. The ship has unmanned submarines that can descend deep into the ocean. Ocean Infinity was taking advantage of favourable weather to move the vessel “towards the vicinity of the possible search zone,” the company said in a statement. The governments of Malaysia, China and Australia called off the 1,046-day official search on Jan. 17 last year.

Source: National Post January 03, 2018 13:55 UTC