MH370 search vessel Go Phoenix being resupplied in Fremantle to continue the search for missing Malaysian Airline plane. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied

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MH370: Could this technology find the missing Malaysian Flight?

Synthetic aperture sonar acoustic image of the sea floor gathered by GO Phoenix. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied

The picture was released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau to show what images search vessels are recording as they scour the southern Indian Ocean.

The Go Phoenix and Fugro Discovery continue to work around the clock intensively scanning the ocean floor, much of it up to 6000m below the water surface.

To date, more than 9000 square kilometres has been searched, representing 16 per cent of the 55,000 square kilometre priority search area.

Although leaders of the Australian led search effort remain confident they are looking in the right place, there is widespread concern the fate of MH370 may never be known.

The Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777 was carrying 239 passengers and crew including six Australians.

Malaysia’s Defence Minister being briefed on MH370 search. Picture: Twitter Source: Twitter

The aircraft lost all communications and radar contact between Malaysia and Vietnam shortly before diverting south from its flight path.

But several “handshakes” recorded between the aircraft and satellites have allowed experts to plot a probable path for MH370 along what is known as the seventh arc in the southern Indian Ocean.

Priority search area for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied

Adding to the mystery of the aircraft’s disappearance is the lack of any debris from the plane.

Search leaders believe the remoteness of its final resting place, mean any wreckage would take months to reach land.

They have asked the residents of Sumatra in Indonesia to be on the alert for debris washing ashore.