The wreckage of a helicopter that crashed in Svalbard, Norway, in 2003 has been discovered by a Hydroid REMUS100 AUV. The helicopter's crew escaped alive, but the wreck had not been seen since it sank into the Adventfjorden bay. Mark Moline, a professor from California Polytechnic State University, USA, who is currently a Fulbright Arctic Chair at the University Centre in Svalbard, was conducting research into climate-related changes to the Adventfjorden's ocean floor. When he downloaded the images from an oceanographic survey in September 2011, he discovered that the REMUS had photographed the missing helicopter wreck. The wreck is...
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