Within 36 hours of Malaysian Flight #370 “going poof” our in-house aviation military expert [still active] said “watch the Maldives“.

Our response resembled the typical Tree House intellectual eloquence we are known for:  “Huh“?
At the time everyone was looking at the China Sea and East, why the heck would this jackrabbit say “watch the Maldives”, and more importantly “where the heck are the Maldives”?   Have another beer, borrow another $250, lets see if we can buy a vowel and get a clue.
International pesky GMT’s always hamper communication when you need it.   It took several days of phone tag before we could interrupt the seemingly perpetual BBQ and ask the question: “why the Maldives“?

“Sheeesh, yer still stuck on that“?   The response was simple.  “Skippy, if I were a pissed off  flying carpet and wanted to scrat/hide that’s where I’d go from Indonesia/Malaysia – West”.
Um, OK…
Within two days three independent reports from the Southern Maldives showed three sightings of a very low flying aircraft.   us = “ok, that’s a coincidence“.
Then weeks go by and still no plane…..

Back to the BBQ and sand-flea interruptus mode.
Big mistake….
After 30 minutes of technical talk about parabola’s, analytical equations, and some old guy called Euclid – the pointy end of a cigar seemed to be saying “they’re lost and will be” (as previously explained).
BBQ and Cigar sputter:  “The Maldives man, argh… what is it you don’t get about The Maldives – gateway to Yemen, Pakistan and the carpet rides“?
Me:   “Huh“?  (and I’m serious, this is exactly what I sounded like)
BBQ fingers:  “… the biggest shipping channel runs the curve between Maldives and India, if you wanna avoid it, go South – but not so far south that Diego will ident“.
Me:  “Huh“?
BBQ Burning:  ..”follow the path over, south, whoopdie doo, around, up, and viola“…

NOW THIS TODAY:

MALDIVES – A mysterious object was found washed up on beach of Baarah island in the Maldives yesterday. The villagers reported it to police who then handed over the case to Maldives military. After investigation the Maldives Defence Force has said its not a bomb or any kind of explosive device. Read full story published earlier.

An aircraft engineer from Maldives has now said the mysterious object is likely to be a Fire Suppression Bottle of an aircraft. The engineer could not say if it is the type used in Boeing 777 model as he did not personally inspect the object. Meanwhile, we have received multiple messages from readers saying that it looks like plane’s fire extinguisher and requested to report to authorities.  (link)

One of the initial odd points about this pressure delivery container is the absence of mounting brackets which would customarily be found in aircraft fire suppression.

However we were able to identify that Boeing uses both types of bottles on it’s commercial aviation, “belly strapped” and “bolt mounted”.
The container found on the beach in the Maldives *IS* a Boeing fire suppression container, and is the same type as found inside 777 long range underbelly cargo storage areas.
They are also used in Boeing cargo planes -SEEN HERE-


 
Now, whether that discharge bottle was the specific discharge bottle from MH-370 is still an unknown.
However, the report it could have been military issue from a B-1B crash is impossible.  All military use stationary rapid-pressure fire suppression systems *are* bolt mounted, and only bolt mounted.
This could be something, or this could be nothing.   But the area makes a heck of a lot more sense than the Southern India Ocean.
ps.   This don’t mean it crashed either (see below)