Ocean Infinity is a Texas-based marine robotics company specializing in deep-sea search, survey, and data collection using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and uncrewed surface vessels.
MH370 Search Campaigns
Ocean Infinity has conducted multiple search campaigns for malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370:
- 2018: Initial “no-find, no-fee” search covering ~100,000 km² — no wreckage found
- 2025–2026: Two search phases (Mar 2025 and Dec 30 2025–Jan 23 2026) covering ~7,571 km² of a 15,000 km² target area under a $70M “no-find, no-fee” contract — no wreckage found
CEO Oliver Plunkett stated the company spent 151 cumulative days at sea and mapped over 140,000 km² of Indian Ocean seafloor across all campaigns. According to src-mh370-ocean-infinity-conclusion-2026-03, the 2025–2026 effort used “significantly more advanced” robotics and automation compared to 2018.
According to src-mh370-deep-sea-robots-search-2026-01, the company deployed AUV swarms capable of multibeam sonar and high-resolution imaging at depths of nearly 6,000 m, coordinated by uncrewed surface vessels.