UNDERWATER DRONES TO LOOK FOR SUNKEN CONTAINERS

The Maritime Safety Authority will deploy underwater drones off the Hunter’s coastline from next week, in an effort to locate sunken shipping containers from the YM Efficiency.

The rovers will descend to the sea floor and take images of containers and debris, to assess whether they’re safe to remove.

AMSA says it’s extremely concerned at the lack of progress in locating the remaining containers… there could be as many as 42.

The authority also says the missing items are posing an unacceptable risk to local fishermen, with three credible reports of trawler hook-ups.

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