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David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation We have now been at sea for 8 days and are still being plagued by technical problems and unseasonably rough weather. A search line we started early this morning had to be aborted because I...
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David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation Shipwreck search projects generally fall into a rythym of running the side-scan sonar down a trackline followed by a turn to the next search trackline, repeated many times over. So a good rythym...
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David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation With Ophelia out of the way we were able to resume the search today and start to make a dent in the search box. However you compare it, our search box is extremely large. In marine terms it...
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David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation There is only one photo to go with our blogs today because there is only one subject that has dominated our day. The weather. Despite the fact that she was downgraded early in the day, Ophelia...
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David Mearns - Seach Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation When I said yesterday that more twists and turns were to come I wasn't expecting them to come so fast. The first twist was a particularly cruel one. Towards the end of our first sonar trackline...
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David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation The most anxious time for any search is the first sonar trackline through the search area. This is when you learn whether the area you are searching consists of either rough geological terrain...
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David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation Other than getting out of port safely the simple objective for today was to conduct a sea-trials of the two Williamson & Associates side-scan sonar systems before we got too far away from...
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On the 29th February 2008 the vessel "SV Geosounder" set sail from Geraldton, Western Australia to find the resting place of the World War II cruiser HMAS Sydney II, tragically lost in November 1941 in the Indian Ocean with its entire crew of...