My theory is that the closer you can get your search area to a populated land mass the more likely you’ll find debris you can announce as another “sighting of debris”.
Hank Whitmore was great on Greta last night. He basically said, since we have no real data to justify searching in the south Indian Ocean anyway, let’s just move the search area off the coast of Kuala Lumpur and we can search right on the beach. Save everybody a lot of aggravation.