The area of the Indian Ocean left to be searched for Flight 370 is vast—more than 23,000 square miles.
It also raises the question of why more appropriate resources were not sent to the Indian Ocean sooner.
At the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, you can snorkel with a retired Asian elephant Rajan.
Everyone on board knew that a Malaysian Airlines flight had been missing, and all were presumed dead in the Indian Ocean.
Days were wasted searching the South China Sea, not the Indian Ocean.
There's no rest for me till she's out in the Indian Ocean and not much of it even then.
He lost her in the Indian Ocean, and had his certificate suspended for a year.
Soon the city has disappeared and we are out on the Indian Ocean.
It lives in the Indian Ocean, which, you know, is many thousand miles off from where we live.
Few people are supposed to cross that part of the Indian Ocean.
first attested 1515 in Modern Latin (Oceanus Orientalis Indicus), named for India, which projects into it; earlier it was the Eastern Ocean, as opposed to the Western Ocean (Atlantic) before the Pacific was surmised.
Third-largest ocean (after the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean), extending from southern Asia to Antarctica and from eastern Africa to southeastern Australia.