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19-05-2025
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27 Wild, Horrifying, And Extremely Messed-Up Stories About The Ocean, Lakes, And Other Bodies Of Water
If you're one of the millions who suffer from thalassophobia (i.e. the intense fear of deep bodies of water such as the ocean or sea), then I probably don't have to remind you that the ocean, lakes, and other bodies of water can be scary places. So, when I decided to go searching for creepy Wikipedia stories about the ocean and other watery places (yeah, IDK, it's something I do 🤷🏻♀️), I found some horrifyingly interesting results. Check it out: Warning: Some images in this post are potentially disturbing. Continue at your own risk. catastrophic implosion of the Titan submersible. On June 18, 2023, the Titan imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic. The underwater vehicle lost contact with its support ship 1 hour and 45 minutes into its dive. A debris field was later found near the Titanic wreck, indicating there had been a catastrophic implosion. It was later concluded that the implosion was caused by structural failure, with many believing OceanGate, the parent company of the Titan, was guilty of "cutting corners." All five people on board were killed instantly. of the sea, a historically accepted practice of cannibalism, specifically cannibalizing the bodies of the deceased, as a means of survival during shipwrecks and sea disasters when food was scarce. Vintage engraving showing the survivors of the Burning of the "Cospatrick". The Cospatrick was a wooden 3-masted full-rigged sailing ship that was the victim of one of the worst shipping disasters to a merchant ship during the 19th century. Initially 61 passengers and crew survived, but one of the lifeboats went missing during a storm on the night of 21 November. Those in the remaining boat were infamously reduced to cannibalism, before five survivors were rescued by the ship British Sceptre on 27 November 1874. Historically, if survivors had no access to food, they sometimes would resort to eating corpses. If there were no corpses, then a lottery was conducted to select a victim. This practice was considered legally and morally acceptable among sailors. However, victims were often chosen because of perceived "expandability," meaning young boys, passengers, or enslaved people were often picked. disappearance of passenger flight Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 somewhere over the Indian Ocean in 2014, which resulted in the loss of all 239 people on board. On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to Beijing Capital International Airport with 239 people on board. The flight was lost on air traffic control radar but picked up by military radar, hundreds of miles off course from the planned flight path. The flight never arrived at its destination. Although various pieces of plane debris have been found in the years since, most of it is unconfirmed to have actually belonged to MH370. 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident in Australia, which killed four recreational scuba divers. The four divers, two of whom were siblings, went exploring at a large sinkhole known as "The Shaft," the total length of which is still unknown. The divers apparently went beyond their planned limits and without the help of a guideline. As a result, they got lost and likely disoriented as their oxygen ran out. Two ended up in a dome area with no exit, one was seen swimming further down in the wrong direction, and the fourth was believed to have been lost beneath a cave ceiling. All four eventually ran out of air and subsequently drowned. It took a year for all of their bodies to be recovered. Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley while on a cruise in the Caribbean. Bradley was on a cruise in the Caribbean with her family when she went missing on March 24, 1998. When Amy's father, Ron, got up early to check on his two kids, he saw that she was apparently asleep on a lounge chair on their cabin's balcony. However, less than an hour later, at 6:00 a.m. she was gone. After a brief search, her family reported her missing to the crew. However, the response was that it was "too early" to make a ship-wide announcement. The crew and staff did eventually search for Amy and then a four-day search by the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard was conducted, but she was never found. There have allegedly been a number of sightings over the years since. wild 1961 story of Terry Jo Duperrault, aka the "Sea Orphan," who was rescued out at sea after floating without food, water, or shelter for three and a half days. Terry Jo Duperrault was just 11 years old when she was found floating in the ocean on a small raft. It turned out that Terry had been on a boat just a few days before with her family and a man named Julian had, himself, been recently rescued out at sea. The twist is that Harvey had actually tried to kill Terry and her family. He had been hired by Terry's family to captain a yacht for a once-in-a-lifetime around-the-world trip. But, instead, he murdered everyone on board and left Terry on the sinking yacht to drown before he escaped. When Terry was found alive, Harvey (who did not expect her to survive his ploy), was notified. Just hours later, Harvey died by suicide. death of three crew members onboard the ship, The Ocean Challenger, which was featured in Season 3 of the show Deadliest Catch. The ship was crewed with four men who abandoned ship after it capsized and took on water. Only one survivor made it out. Rescue missions also found two dead crewmen floating in the water and one empty survival suit. entire article is dedicated to the phrase "Man overboard!" which also includes the fact that hundreds of people have gone overboard from cruise ships since 2000. According to the section about "overboard statistics," since 2000, 284 people have gone overboard or fallen off of cruise ships, while 41 people have fallen off of ferries. And, apparently, "in any given month," roughly two people go overboard, while only 17 to 25 percent are rescued. Lake Bodom murders, one of the most infamous unsolved homicide cases in Finnish criminal history. In June 1960, four teens decided to camp on the shore of Lake Bodom. Three of the teens were stabbed and bludgeoned to death. The only survivor, Nils Gustafsson, sustained a concussion and some facial fractures. He claimed to have only gotten a glimpse of the attacker. Gustafsson was later tried for their murders but acquitted. Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam who was a crewmember on the cruise ship Disney Wonder. Coriam missed her shift one morning aboard the Disney cruise in 2011, and couldn't be found in her room or anywhere else on the ship. However, investigators did find CCTV footage of her (at 5:45 a.m.) having a phone conversation and appearing emotionally distraught. This was the last record of her presence aboard the ship and her body has not been found. case of Harold Holt, a former Australian prime minister who disappeared while swimming at Chevion beach in Australia. Holt was still in office when he went missing in 1967, and the case spawned several conspiracy theories — including wild ones like that he'd been taken by a Chinese submarine. Holt had left behind his clothes and spearfishing equipment on the beach, but his body was never found. Holt was later presumed dead. disappearance of Amelia Earhart over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Earhart was an aviation pioneer who, at just 39 years old, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while attempting to become the first woman to fly around the globe. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were last seen taking off from New Guinea on July 2, 1937. And her last contact was a message to a Coast Guard boat saying, "We must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet.' And, finally, an hour later, 'We are running north and south.' A rescue attempt and search were made, scouring 250,000 square miles of ocean, but it was called off on July 19. Although there has been a lot of speculation over the years, no one actually knows what happened to Earhart and Noonan. Miss Lake Panasoffkee, an unidentified young woman found murdered in Florida. This Jane Doe was discovered partially submerged in Lake Panasoffkee in Florida. The victim was fully clothed, with a ring on her ring finger (suggesting she may have been married), and with a man's size 36 belt fastened around her neck. Lava Lake murders, one of the oldest unsolved murder cases in Oregon's history. This was a triple murder that occurred at Little Lava Lake in Central Oregon's Deschutes National Forest almost 100 years ago, way back in 1924. Three friends had planned to spend the winter in a log cabin, working as fur trappers. After going missing, blood, human hair, and teeth were found leading to the lake where their bodies were eventually discovered as the frozen ice thawed. story of Rev. Adelir Antonio de Carli, who floated out over the ocean and disappeared from contact after being tied to 1,000 balloons. Although the priest — who was making an attempt at "cluster ballooning" (a form of ballooning where people are literally harnessed to a cluster of helium-inflated rubber balloons) — had been equipped with all kinds of gear like a radio and a GPS tracking device, he was lost for months, and his corpse was eventually found in the ocean. or "Skeleton Lake" where you can see hundreds of human skeleton remains. This shallow lake in India is famous for having hundreds of human skeletons at the edge, which you can see when the snow melts. According to researchers, the bones are the remains of people killed in a sudden and violent hailstorm in the 9th century. disappearance of Andrew McAuley whose distress calls were later found on a recovered memory stick. McAuley was an Australian kayaker who attempted to cross the Tasman Sea in 2007. He slept in the kayak using a sea anchor and a capsule that enclosed him into the kayak's hatch. When his kayak was recovered, the capsule was missing. In the aftermath, footage was found on a memory stick in his camera and shows him making distress calls saying he was sinking and needed a rescue. Murder of Helle Crafts, a Danish woman who was murdered by her husband and whose chopped-up remains were found in a lake. After Helle Crafts's disappearance in 1986, a snowplow driver reported seeing her husband using a woodchipper near the lake on the night Helle was last seen. In and near the lake, police found pieces of metal and human tissue including a tooth, a fingernail, bone chips, human hair, fingernails, and blood that all matched Helle. Police concluded her remains had gone through a woodchipper. Her case partially inspired the film Fargo. Salish Sea human foot discoveries. Since August of 2007, there have been at least 20 DETACHED human feet discovered off the coasts of British Columbia in Canada and Washington state in the US. There are a ton of theories as to why JUST feet have been discovered — ranging from boating accidents, plane crashes, suicide, foul play, and even the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Lady in the Lake trial about a woman whose body was discovered by amateur divers at the bottom of a lake. Pa Images / Getty Images, Owen Humphreys - Pa Images / Getty Images Carol Park's body was discovered at the bottom of Coniston Water in North West England. She had been wrapped in a pinafore dress, plastic bags, and weighed down with lead piping. In a post-mortem, it was discovered that her face had been smashed and that the murder weapon was an ice axe. Her husband, Gordon Park, was eventually found guilty, but there was a ton of controversy surrounding the case. existence of bog bodies — i.e. human cadavers that have been naturally mummified in a peat bog. The preservation of bodies in bogs is a natural phenomenon, i.e. not a result of humans purposefully doing it. The bogs' acids, with pH levels similar to vinegar, conserve human bodies in the same way as fruit is preserved by pickling. Lake Nyos disaster that killed almost 2,000 people. This 1986 eruption in northwestern Cameroon triggered the sudden release of about 100,000–300,000 tons of carbon dioxide. It's believed that most of the victims had been poisoned by a mixture of gases that included hydrogen and sulfur. Among eye and nose pain, victims also suffered asphyxiation similar to being strangled. MV Joyita, a ship whose crew and passengers mysteriously disappeared. This merchant vessel set sail in the South Pacific in 1955 with a crew of 25, but was found adrift five weeks later with no one on board and in bad condition. There are many theories about what happened, especially since the ship had been called "unsinkable." Diving bell spider — a species of spider that lives almost entirely underwater. Found in clean fresh water (like lakes, ponds, and more), this is the only known spider that spends almost all its life underwater. It only comes above the surface to briefly replenish its oxygen supply. Their bite is very painful and can cause vomiting and feverishness. sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis that left crew members floating alone in the sharks. Apparently, the sinking of this ship resulted in the most shark attacks on humans in history. It was so bad that some survivors killed themselves or even other crew members in various states of delirium and hallucinations. Abyssal zone, the part of the ocean that remains in perpetual darkness. This layer of the ocean comes from the Greek word meaning "bottomless," and makes up over 83% of the ocean and covers 60% of the Earth. Since there's no light, there are no plants to produce oxygen which results in a death trap for organisms that can't quickly return to oxygen-enriched water above. this very long List of Bermuda Triangle incidents. There are at least 923 fatalities attributed to the Bermuda Triangle including many missing planes, incidents at sea (allegedly Christopher Columbus and his crew even saw strange lights there), and one incident on land where two lighthouse keepers went missing, never to be found.
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19-05-2025
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- Buzz Feed
Creepy Wikipedia Pages About The Ocean And More
If you're one of the millions who suffer from thalassophobia (i.e. the intense fear of deep bodies of water such as the ocean or sea), then I probably don't have to remind you that the ocean, lakes, and other bodies of water can be scary places. So, when I decided to go searching for creepy Wikipedia stories about the ocean and other watery places (yeah, IDK, it's something I do 🤷🏻♀️), I found some horrifyingly interesting results. Check it out: The catastrophic implosion of the Titan submersible. On June 18, 2023, the Titan imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic. The underwater vehicle lost contact with its support ship 1 hour and 45 minutes into its dive. A debris field was later found near the Titanic wreck, indicating there had been a catastrophic implosion. It was later concluded that the implosion was caused by structural failure, with many believing OceanGate, the parent company of the Titan, was guilty of "cutting corners." All five people on board were killed instantly. Custom of the sea, a historically accepted practice of cannibalism, specifically cannibalizing the bodies of the deceased, as a means of survival during shipwrecks and sea disasters when food was scarce. Vintage engraving showing the survivors of the Burning of the "Cospatrick". The Cospatrick was a wooden 3-masted full-rigged sailing ship that was the victim of one of the worst shipping disasters to a merchant ship during the 19th century. Initially 61 passengers and crew survived, but one of the lifeboats went missing during a storm on the night of 21 November. Those in the remaining boat were infamously reduced to cannibalism, before five survivors were rescued by the ship British Sceptre on 27 November 1874. Historically, if survivors had no access to food, they sometimes would resort to eating corpses. If there were no corpses, then a lottery was conducted to select a victim. This practice was considered legally and morally acceptable among sailors. However, victims were often chosen because of perceived "expandability," meaning young boys, passengers, or enslaved people were often picked. The disappearance of passenger flight Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 somewhere over the Indian Ocean in 2014, which resulted in the loss of all 239 people on board. On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to Beijing Capital International Airport with 239 people on board. The flight was lost on air traffic control radar but picked up by military radar, hundreds of miles off course from the planned flight path. The flight never arrived at its destination. Although various pieces of plane debris have been found in the years since, most of it is unconfirmed to have actually belonged to MH370. The 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident in Australia, which killed four recreational scuba divers. The four divers, two of whom were siblings, went exploring at a large sinkhole known as "The Shaft," the total length of which is still unknown. The divers apparently went beyond their planned limits and without the help of a guideline. As a result, they got lost and likely disoriented as their oxygen ran out. Two ended up in a dome area with no exit, one was seen swimming further down in the wrong direction, and the fourth was believed to have been lost beneath a cave ceiling. All four eventually ran out of air and subsequently drowned. It took a year for all of their bodies to be recovered. The Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley while on a cruise in the Caribbean. Bradley was on a cruise in the Caribbean with her family when she went missing on March 24, 1998. When Amy's father, Ron, got up early to check on his two kids, he saw that she was apparently asleep on a lounge chair on their cabin's balcony. However, less than an hour later, at 6:00 a.m. she was gone. After a brief search, her family reported her missing to the crew. However, the response was that it was "too early" to make a ship-wide announcement. The crew and staff did eventually search for Amy and then a four-day search by the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard was conducted, but she was never found. There have allegedly been a number of sightings over the years since. The wild 1961 story of Terry Jo Duperrault, aka the "Sea Orphan," who was rescued out at sea after floating without food, water, or shelter for three and a half days. Terry Jo Duperrault was just 11 years old when she was found floating in the ocean on a small raft. It turned out that Terry had been on a boat just a few days before with her family and a man named Julian had, himself, been recently rescued out at sea. The twist is that Harvey had actually tried to kill Terry and her family. He had been hired by Terry's family to captain a yacht for a once-in-a-lifetime around-the-world trip. But, instead, he murdered everyone on board and left Terry on the sinking yacht to drown before he escaped. When Terry was found alive, Harvey (who did not expect her to survive his ploy), was notified. Just hours later, Harvey died by suicide. The death of three crew members onboard the ship, The Ocean Challenger, which was featured in Season 3 of the show Deadliest Catch. The ship was crewed with four men who abandoned ship after it capsized and took on water. Only one survivor made it out. Rescue missions also found two dead crewmen floating in the water and one empty survival suit. This entire article is dedicated to the phrase "Man overboard!" which also includes the fact that hundreds of people have gone overboard from cruise ships since 2000. According to the section about "overboard statistics," since 2000, 284 people have gone overboard or fallen off of cruise ships, while 41 people have fallen off of ferries. And, apparently, "in any given month," roughly two people go overboard, while only 17 to 25 percent are rescued. The Lake Bodom murders, one of the most infamous unsolved homicide cases in Finnish criminal history. In June 1960, four teens decided to camp on the shore of Lake Bodom. Three of the teens were stabbed and bludgeoned to death. The only survivor, Nils Gustafsson, sustained a concussion and some facial fractures. He claimed to have only gotten a glimpse of the attacker. Gustafsson was later tried for their murders but acquitted. The Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam who was a crewmember on the cruise ship Disney Wonder. Coriam missed her shift one morning aboard the Disney cruise in 2011, and couldn't be found in her room or anywhere else on the ship. However, investigators did find CCTV footage of her (at 5:45 a.m.) having a phone conversation and appearing emotionally distraught. This was the last record of her presence aboard the ship and her body has not been found. The case of Harold Holt, a former Australian prime minister who disappeared while swimming at Chevion beach in Australia. Holt was still in office when he went missing in 1967, and the case spawned several conspiracy theories — including wild ones like that he'd been taken by a Chinese submarine. Holt had left behind his clothes and spearfishing equipment on the beach, but his body was never found. Holt was later presumed dead. The disappearance of Amelia Earhart over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Earhart was an aviation pioneer who, at just 39 years old, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while attempting to become the first woman to fly around the globe. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were last seen taking off from New Guinea on July 2, 1937. And her last contact was a message to a Coast Guard boat saying, "We must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet.' And, finally, an hour later, 'We are running north and south.' A rescue attempt and search were made, scouring 250,000 square miles of ocean, but it was called off on July 19. Although there has been a lot of speculation over the years, no one actually knows what happened to Earhart and Noonan. Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee, an unidentified young woman found murdered in Florida. This Jane Doe was discovered partially submerged in Lake Panasoffkee in Florida. The victim was fully clothed, with a ring on her ring finger (suggesting she may have been married), and with a man's size 36 belt fastened around her neck. The Lava Lake murders, one of the oldest unsolved murder cases in Oregon's history. This was a triple murder that occurred at Little Lava Lake in Central Oregon's Deschutes National Forest almost 100 years ago, way back in 1924. Three friends had planned to spend the winter in a log cabin, working as fur trappers. After going missing, blood, human hair, and teeth were found leading to the lake where their bodies were eventually discovered as the frozen ice thawed. The story of Rev. Adelir Antonio de Carli, who floated out over the ocean and disappeared from contact after being tied to 1,000 balloons. Although the priest — who was making an attempt at "cluster ballooning" (a form of ballooning where people are literally harnessed to a cluster of helium-inflated rubber balloons) — had been equipped with all kinds of gear like a radio and a GPS tracking device, he was lost for months, and his corpse was eventually found in the ocean. Roopkund or "Skeleton Lake" where you can see hundreds of human skeleton remains. This shallow lake in India is famous for having hundreds of human skeletons at the edge, which you can see when the snow melts. According to researchers, the bones are the remains of people killed in a sudden and violent hailstorm in the 9th century. The disappearance of Andrew McAuley whose distress calls were later found on a recovered memory stick. McAuley was an Australian kayaker who attempted to cross the Tasman Sea in 2007. He slept in the kayak using a sea anchor and a capsule that enclosed him into the kayak's hatch. When his kayak was recovered, the capsule was missing. In the aftermath, footage was found on a memory stick in his camera and shows him making distress calls saying he was sinking and needed a rescue. The Murder of Helle Crafts, a Danish woman who was murdered by her husband and whose chopped-up remains were found in a lake. After Helle Crafts's disappearance in 1986, a snowplow driver reported seeing her husband using a woodchipper near the lake on the night Helle was last seen. In and near the lake, police found pieces of metal and human tissue including a tooth, a fingernail, bone chips, human hair, fingernails, and blood that all matched Helle. Police concluded her remains had gone through a woodchipper. Her case partially inspired the film Fargo. The Salish Sea human foot discoveries. Since August of 2007, there have been at least 20 DETACHED human feet discovered off the coasts of British Columbia in Canada and Washington state in the US. There are a ton of theories as to why JUST feet have been discovered — ranging from boating accidents, plane crashes, suicide, foul play, and even the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The Lady in the Lake trial about a woman whose body was discovered by amateur divers at the bottom of a lake. Carol Park's body was discovered at the bottom of Coniston Water in North West England. She had been wrapped in a pinafore dress, plastic bags, and weighed down with lead piping. In a post-mortem, it was discovered that her face had been smashed and that the murder weapon was an ice axe. Her husband, Gordon Park, was eventually found guilty, but there was a ton of controversy surrounding the case. The existence of bog bodies — i.e. human cadavers that have been naturally mummified in a peat bog. The preservation of bodies in bogs is a natural phenomenon, i.e. not a result of humans purposefully doing it. The bogs' acids, with pH levels similar to vinegar, conserve human bodies in the same way as fruit is preserved by pickling. The Lake Nyos disaster that killed almost 2,000 people. This 1986 eruption in northwestern Cameroon triggered the sudden release of about 100,000–300,000 tons of carbon dioxide. It's believed that most of the victims had been poisoned by a mixture of gases that included hydrogen and sulfur. Among eye and nose pain, victims also suffered asphyxiation similar to being strangled. The MV Joyita, a ship whose crew and passengers mysteriously disappeared. This merchant vessel set sail in the South Pacific in 1955 with a crew of 25, but was found adrift five weeks later with no one on board and in bad condition. There are many theories about what happened, especially since the ship had been called "unsinkable." The Diving bell spider — a species of spider that lives almost entirely underwater. Found in clean fresh water (like lakes, ponds, and more), this is the only known spider that spends almost all its life underwater. It only comes above the surface to briefly replenish its oxygen supply. Their bite is very painful and can cause vomiting and feverishness. The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis that left crew members floating alone in the sharks. Apparently, the sinking of this ship resulted in the most shark attacks on humans in history. It was so bad that some survivors killed themselves or even other crew members in various states of delirium and hallucinations. The Abyssal zone, the part of the ocean that remains in perpetual darkness. This layer of the ocean comes from the Greek word meaning "bottomless," and makes up over 83% of the ocean and covers 60% of the Earth. Since there's no light, there are no plants to produce oxygen which results in a death trap for organisms that can't quickly return to oxygen-enriched water above. Finally, this very long List of Bermuda Triangle incidents. There are at least 923 fatalities attributed to the Bermuda Triangle including many missing planes, incidents at sea (allegedly Christopher Columbus and his crew even saw strange lights there), and one incident on land where two lighthouse keepers went missing, never to be found.
Daily Record
22-04-2025
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- Daily Record
Devastating reason search for missing MH370 plane suddenly halted
A marine robotics company was searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, known as Flight MH370, which went missing while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 The latest search for the vanished Malaysia Airlines plane by a marine robotics firm has been abruptly stopped due to seasonal conditions, leaving families devastated as they continue to mourn a decade later. Malaysia's transport minister, Anthony Loke, declared a temporary cessation of the search to AFP, stating: "They have stopped the operation for the time being, they will resume the search at the end of this year." He emphasised that the current season rendered the search unfeasible, though he did not elaborate on why this seasonal shift disrupted the efforts. He added: "Right now, it's not the season." The aircraft, a Boeing 777 known as Flight MH370, vanished with 227 passengers and 12 crew members while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. This disappearance has led to one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the history of aviation and is also the deadliest incident involving a missing aircraft. The halt in the search comes just after authorities had announced plans to restart the search, following prior exhaustive but unsuccessful searches across the Indian Ocean, reports the Mirror. On the 11th anniversary of the flight's disappearance last month, relatives of the Chinese passengers gathered outside government buildings and the Malaysian embassy in Beijing. At the vigil, they cried out, "Give us back our loved ones!". Other heartbroken family members displayed banners asking the poignant question, "When will the 11 years of waiting and torment end?". The initial search for the missing MH370, led by Australia, covered 120,000sq km (46,300sq miles) and spanned three years, but only turned up a few pieces of debris. In 2018, Ocean Infinity, a maritime exploration firm from the UK and US, embarked on an unsuccessful search and agreed to make another attempt this year under a "no find, no fee" deal with the Malaysian government, who will pay only if the aircraft is found. Early in April, Loke expressed caution regarding the search outcome, stating, "Whether or not it will be found will be subject to the search, nobody can anticipate," in reference to the plane's remains. Since the vanishing of MH370, there has been widespread speculation ranging from credible hypotheses to fantastical suggestions involving the experienced pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah committing hijack. There is yet to be any confirmation of these theories, leaving the actual cause shrouded in mystery. A comprehensive report published in 2018 pointed out failings by air traffic control and verified that the flight's direction was manually changed. Nonetheless, despite the exhaustive 495-page investigation, officials were unable to provide a definitive rationale for the plane's disappearance, nor rule out the chance that someone other than the pilots might have changed its course. The relatives of those on board MH370 continue to demand answers from Malaysian authorities. Two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese nationals, with the remainder coming from Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, and various other nations.
Daily Mirror
22-04-2025
- General
- Daily Mirror
Heartbreaking explanation search for missing MH370 plane halted suddenly
Authorities said 'Whether or not it will be found will be subject to the search, nobody can anticipate' referring to the plane's remains. The latest search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane by a marine robotics company has come to an abrupt halt due to seasonal conditions as heartbroken families grapple with grief a decade on. Malaysia's transport minister, Anthony Loke, announced a temporary halt to the search telling AFP: "They have stopped the operation for the time being, they will resume the search at the end of this year." He made it clear that the time of year made the search impossible, although the exact reason this seasonal change has thrown off the search was not made obvious. He added: "Right now, it's not the season." The Boeing 777, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, known as Flight MH370, disappeared with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing March 8, 2014, sparking one of the most baffling mysteries in aviation history. It also remains the deadliest single case of an aircraft disappearance. This pause comes shortly after officials had announced the resumption of the search, following previous extensive but fruitless efforts across the Indian Ocean. Last month, on the 11th anniversary of the flight's disappearance, family of the Chinese passengers congregated outside government buildings and the Malaysian embassy in Beijing. Those present at the vigil demanded, "Give us back our loved ones!". Other devastated families held banners posing the heart-rending question, "When will the 11 years of waiting and torment end?". An initial search led by Australia spanned 120,000sq km (46,300sq miles) over three years, yielding little more than a few fragments of debris. Ocean Infinity, a maritime exploration company from the UK and US, undertook an unsuccessful quest in 2018 and agreed to another attempt this year. The firm's latest mission operated under a "no find, no fee" arrangement, with the Malaysian government agreeing to pay only if the aircraft is located. Loke remained cautious about the outcome, stating in early April: "Whether or not it will be found will be subject to the search, nobody can anticipate," referring to the plane's remains. The disappearance of MH370 has sparked a myriad of theories, from the plausible to the absurd – including speculation that seasoned pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah hijacked the aircraft. None of these have been proven, but thecause remains unknown. However, one conclusive report published in 2018 highlighted lapses by air traffic control and confirmed that the flight path was altered by hand. Despite the detailed 495-page investigation, authorities still have no clear explanation for the disappearance and could not discount the possibility that someone apart from the pilots re-routed the plane. Families of those aboard the ill-fated MH370 have persisted in their pursuit for clarity from Malaysian officials. Chinese nationals made up two-thirds of the passengers, with others hailing from Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and various countries.
NBC News
04-04-2025
- General
- NBC News
Search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight suspended until the end of the year, official says
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The search for the wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean has been suspended due to poor weather conditions and will only resume at the end of the year, Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook said Thursday. Flight 370, a Boeing 777, was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members when it vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014, in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. The minister, quoted by state news agency Bernama, did not say why such a prolonged delay was required. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is now autumn and poor wintry conditions are then expected to predominate for several months. The U.S. exploration company charged with searching for the wreckage of the plane, Ocean Infinity, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 'I think right now it's not the season. I think they (Ocean Infinity) have stopped the operation for the time being and will resume the search at the end of this year,' Transport Minister Loke was quoted by Bernama as saying. Last month, Malaysia agreed to terms and conditions of an agreement with Ocean Infinity to resume the search for the plane in a new location estimated to cover about 5,790 square miles in the southern Indian Ocean. The search is based on a 'no find, no fee' principle, in which Ocean Infinity will receive $70 million only if the wreckage is successfully located. 'We have been waiting for more than 11 years, so this is just another few more months ... I can still wait,' the 50-year-old said.
