Identifying the wreck
The search teams have moved on from the location but already transmitted their findings to marine archaeologists to identify the wreck.
Australian authorities said that they expect to complete searching the current priority zone of 60,000 square kilometers where they believe the Flight MH370 went down within the month. If the search turns out negative, they will expand it to another 60,000 square kilometers zone. The governments of Malaysia, Australia and China are collaborating on the search.
Meanwhile Michael McCarthy, curator of the Western Australian Maritime Museum, said that it would be very difficult to identify the newly-discovered shipwreck since there are hundreds of such ships that have gone down in the oceans over the centuries.
He added that based on the initial data transmitted to them, the ship is a mid-to-late 19th century wooden-hull, iron sailing ship of unknown origin but likely built in Europe.
McCarthy said that it is just difficult to identify a shipwreck since the world’s ocean floor has hundreds of lost ships over the course of time either through cyclones, typhoons, among other national occurrences.