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16 April 2008
The Closing Report from the Finding Sydney Foundation Search Team.
07 April 2008
Before the start of our ROV
dive on Kormoran’s wreck and debris field I cautioned everyone that
in contrast with HMAS Sydney the wreck of Kormoran was going to be
in a very bad state.
06 April 2008
I was expecting another long
day (and night) today diving on the sonar targets we named as the
“battle site” between Kormoran and Sydney largely because of their
location on a line that approximates very closely the projected line
of the battle.
05 April 2008
The top objective of today’s
ROV dive to HMAS Sydney’s debris field was to identify the largest
sonar target, which I was confident was Sydney’s detached bow.
04 April 2008
Immediately after posting our
search diary yesterday we were forced to recover the ROV because of
an alarm telling us it was low on oil that is used to fill an
important transformer housing.
03 April 2008
Whilst it has taken longer
than expected I am very pleased we can now show the first pictures
of HMAS Sydney to a waiting Australia.
22th march 2008
The SV Geosounder returned to Geraldton, Western Australia on
Thursday 20th of March 2008. The demobilisation of the Williamson
Sonar Spread has been completed and the mobilisation of an ROV team
and specialist deepwater camera and lighting equipment, is currently
underway.
The SV Geosounder is expected to depart late Easter weekend where
the Finding Sydney Foundation Search Diary Blog will recommence with
further updates. The highly anticipated imagery of the HMAS Sydney
II and HSK Kormoran from the ROV team is expected to be published at
http://www.findingsydney.com,
late next week.
18th march 2008
A small service is conducted over the wreck of the HMAS SYDNEY II
prior to heading back to Geraldton.
17th march 2008
A small service is conducted over the wreck of the HSK Kormoran.
Wreck of HMAS SYDNEY II Discovered
HMAS Sydney
(II), sunk with all hands on 19 November 1941, had been found in
2,468 metres of water. Her position was recorded as being
26° 14’ 37” S 111° 13’ 03” E.
Wreck of HSK Kormoran Discovered
The wreckage of the
German Raider HSK Kormoran was found by the search team on board the
SV Geosounder at 17:30 (AWDT) on March 12th, 2008 in the approximate
position 26° 05' 49.4" S 111° 04' 27.5" E.
14th march 2008
We ran our first "higher-resolution" line late last evening past
some suspicious looking sonar targets at the southern extremity of
our search box.
13th march 2008
After our early problems I am very pleased with how the search has
progressed over the past couple of days.
12th march 2008
A few days ago I wrote about the rhythm of a search expedition -
how a good rhythm consists of a search line followed by a turn to
the next line repeated many times over with monotonous regularity.
11th March 2008
We've had such a lousy string of luck since the start of this search
is was about time that things started to go our way.
10th March 2008
We have now
been at sea for 8 days and are still being plagued by technical
problems and unseasonably rough weather.
9th March 2008
Shipwreck
search projects generally fall into a rhythm of running the
side-scan sonar down a trackline followed by a turn to the next
search trackline, repeated many times over.
8th March 2008
With Ophelia out of the way we were able to resume the search
today and start to make a dent in the search box.
7th March 2008
There is only one photo to go with our blogs today because there is
only one subject that has dominated our day. The weather.
6th March 2008
When I said
yesterday that more twists and turns were to come I wasn't expecting
them to come so fast.
5th March 2008
The
control room where the Williamson & Assoc's equipment is set up
along with the DOF Subsea navigation control area.
4th March 2008
Other than getting out of port safely the simple objective for today
was to conduct sea-trials of the two Williamson & Associates
side-scan
sonar systems
3th March 2008
The
Finding Sydney Foundation chartered vessel, DOF SV Geosounder, today
left from Geraldton Harbour with the hopes of the nation sailing
with her.
http://www.findingsydney.com
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