Overview
- Malaysia says Ocean Infinity will resume seabed scanning on December 30 in a roughly 15,000 sq km zone assessed as most likely to contain the wreckage.
- The mission proceeds under a no‑find, no‑fee arrangement that compensates the contractor only if substantive wreckage is located.
- Ocean Infinity plans to use Hugin 6000 autonomous underwater vehicles with 3D seabed mapping, sub‑bottom profiling and magnetometers, with remotely operated vehicles to inspect and recover finds.
- An attempt earlier in 2025 was suspended after about 22 days due to severe weather, and the company now returns with upgraded systems and refined targeting informed by debris drift analysis.
- Families have welcomed the renewed effort for answers, as a 2018 Malaysian report found the jet was manually turned and could not rule out unlawful third‑party interference.