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There has been a trend of "finding" things that nobody was looking for, now that there is an excess capacity to scan and then automaticaly analyise the data, pe
by metalman 2y ago
There has been a trend of "finding" things that nobody was looking for, now that there is an excess capacity to scan and then automaticaly analyise the data, people will be looking for ways to monitise that, even if it's just sending clicks to there advertainment platform, of course they are realy hopeing for a Spanish galleon, but are quite unlikely to publish that....
though the push will be on, as things like having side scan sonar attached to any old random ship
is becoming a trivial expense, and routing ships traffic, in ever so slightly offset tracks, would also be trivial, the common occurance of ships having to wait off shore, in a holding patterns,
provides another oportunity to gather data, for use in refining algorithms on known wrecks , fish, whales and whatever else is going on ,over 70% of the planet.....so, ya
- pfdietz 2y agoAlso, some of the wrecks can be salvaged for low-background steel, which has had some extra value (not sure if that's still the case.) This is often not legal -- the wrecks are war graves -- but it has happened nonetheless. There have also been advances in algorithms for estimating where ships have gone down, so-called "renavigation". This has enabled search areas to be reduced in size. This was used to locate some of the carriers sunk at Midway.