By Frank Coletta For Daily Mail Australia It's a race against time. More than 200 people have been employed by Dutch surveying group Fugro to get the job done as quickly as possible. They have a one-year deadline in which to find wreckage of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, before they will be forced to move on by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). Fugro must follow the lead provided by the ATSB. Forming part of its contractual arrangements is that the current search site is to be analysed for a maximum of 12 months. ‘We know the time frame we have is about a year, after that we’ll be working in a new box as provided by the ATSB – they’re always refining their data and if they decide before that it (the plane wreckage) may be further south or north, they can order us to move at any time,' said Fugro Managing Director, Steve Duffield.
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'Fugro Equator' returns to the southern Indian Ocean for its third mission
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Sister ship 'Fugro Discovery' has been diverted to avoid pirates
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Second vessel to arrive in mid-September, 10 days later than expected
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New images show how Fugro crews will conduct sea-bed search for MH370
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The Dutch search team has confirmed it has 'one year' to look inside its designated 60,000 square kilometre region before having to move on
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Underwater vehicles will search sea floor, 1600km off West Australian coast
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More than 200 personnel are now working on the project for the company
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Fugro officials believe the 'worst-case scenario is that we'll find an engine'
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Malaysia Airlines passenger plane, carrying 239 people, vanished in March
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