Report in Sydney Morning Herald 31 August 2014
http://www.smh.com.au/national/mh370-hunt-gets-new-map-as-searchers-say-well-find-it-20140830-10aczn.htmlIncludes :-
A survey of the area in the southern Indian Ocean by two ships using multi beam sonar is almost complete and will provide an accurate contour map of the sea bed which in places is up to six kilometres deep.
At the end of September, three ships, the Equator and Discovery owned by contracted search company Fugro Survey Australia, and the Malaysian-contracted vessel GO Phoenix will begin the search that could finally answer the world's biggest aviation mystery.
The ships will each pull side scanning sonor devices known as "towfish" through the water approximately 100 metres above the seabed attached to armour-plated cable about 10 kilometres long using the new charts to maintain the optimum height and avoid newly discovered underwater volcanoes or other geological features.
Fugro's contract was only to "search and identify a debris field"
