'Recherche de l’Oiseau Blanc’ Project

UK-headquartered Swathe Services has supported the ‘Recherche de l’Oiseau Blanc’ project for the second year. The survey works were conducted close to St Pierre et Miquelon off Newfoundland with the primary goal being to locate two important wrecks: an aircraft which disappeared in 1927, and a French trawler which was lost at sea in 1962.

The survey equipment chosen for this exploration included a Klein 3900 side-scan sonar interfaced with SonarPro and a towed Marine Magnetics Seaspy magnetometer interfaced with Hypack Max. Swathe Services was involved in the equi