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04 March 2008......
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 Geraldton
and departed for the search area. Although the sonars were sea-trialled
in Seattle just a couple of months ago we wanted to make sure they
made the long sea-transit in perfect working condition and the only
way to know this was to trial them again.
The
weather (Force 5) could have been better but Williamson's crew, led
by Jeff Koch running the back deck are a well coordinated unit and
working together with Geosounder's crew, the two separate launch and
recoveries went quite smoothly for the first time off an unfamiliar
vessel."
They are testing the gear on a know submerged object just north of
the Abrohlos Islands before proceeding to the real search area.
There has already been a couple of short delays in getting started
but now the search will be getting underway properly.
Articles & photos courtesy 'The Finding Sydney Foundation'
http://www.findingsydney.com
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