Reports are claiming that search vessels are heading toward a newly projected crash site of the missing Malaysian Airline jet MH370. A strategy has also been devised, basically planning out a full sweep of the suspected crash region.

The Malaysian-contracted boat, GO Phoenix, left Singapore Tuesday, and will soon receive instructions regarding the search zone, according to Martin Dolan (Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner).

GO Phoenix's search for the jet is part of the renewed search operations that are set to occur in sequence.

Dolan said that the renewed $52 million operation would take up to a year, since it involves a "sequenced search" of priority areas across remote waters about 1,800km off Perth.

"Our plan now is to cover a sequence of priority areas up to a 12-month period," Dolan said.

"We have settled on what will be the first few priority areas. We will keep on going until we don't have the resources to do it anymore, unless we find the aircraft before that time," he added.

In the past few months, despite an international effort for search operations, the Malaysia Airlines jet which disappeared on March 8 while en route to Beijing with 239 passengers has still not been found.

The upcoming deep-sea sonar search will be conducted by GO Phoenix and cover an area of 23,000 square miles off the coast in Western Australia; many believe that this is the best hope to find the missing aircraft.

The only clues about where the jet might have crashed stem from the Inmarsat Plc (ISAT) satellite.

"We're now at the point where we can say we've pretty much got a sequence of priority areas along the arc," Dolan said told Bloomberg.

He went on ot mention, "We know the first place we'll be searching and we'll be formalizing the tasking for that within the next few days."

In May, search crews from Australia reported hearing sounds from a possible black box connection, but that lead turned cold.

Since then, vessels have been surveying the ocean floor, including ridges, trenches, undersea mountains and plains to serve as a guide to the deep-sea search.

"We can see extinct volcanoes, 2,000-meter cliffs. We've had really good vessels and equipment, and highly skilled crew. If all that comes together I'm cautiously optimistic," Dolan said