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Havila Harmony topside support vessel in Titanic expedition

The "Havila Harmony" will serve as the topside support vessel for citizen explorers, researchers, content experts, and crew throughout the 2019 "Titanic" Survey Expedition. The survey led by OceanGate Expeditions, is a rare opportunity that combines exploration travel with scientific research to give private citizens, known as mission specialists, a chance to work alongside a team of experts to document and digitally preserve the historic maritime site. Reach Subsea was pleased to support the 2019 Titanic Survey Expedition and believed that their global experience in multi-purpose vessel operations, subsea exploration, and survey will compliment this project. The "Havila Harmony" was scheduled to sail from St. John’s, Newfoundland in June 2019 and head nearly 380 nautical miles offshore to the wreck site of the RMS "Titanic" where it will serve as the topside support ship for the first manned mission to the historic site since 2005. The vessel will house over 35 mission specialists, researchers, scientists and expedition crew throughout the six-week survey and is complete with private living quarters for all mission specialists as well as various common areas for collaboration, presentations, and mission prep. The 2019 "Titanic" Survey Expedition is the first in a multi-year scientific and technological survey to collect images, video, laser scans, and sonar data which will be used to create a virtual 3D model of the site and provide an objective basis to assess the rate of decay over time and digitally preserve its submerged history.

2 ships searching for MH370 have damaged vital equipment

Australia (AP) — The hunt for the Malaysian airliner in the Indian Ocean has been set back with two of the three search ships sustaining damage to vital equipment in recent days, officials said on Wednesday. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is coordinating the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, said Wednesday that a piece of underwater communications equipment fitted to the Havila Harmony had become tangled in fishing net and had been bent. The damage was discovered by divers last week the during a maintenance visit to the Australian west coast city of Perth. The equipment is scheduled to be replaced by Thursday when the Havila Harmony will leave Perth to return to the southern Indian Ocean, the bureau said. The Havila Harmony carries an underwater drone fitted with cameras and high-resolution sonar equipment needed to scour difficult terrain. The bureau revealed on Monday that the search of 120 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) of seabed where the Boeing 777 is thought to have crashed two years ago had been disrupted when another search ship lost its sonar equipment. The Fugro Discovery towed its side-scan sonar unit on Sunday into a mud volcano that rose 2,200 meters (7,200 feet) from the sea floor, the bureau said. The ship lost the sonar unit plus 4.5 kilometers (14,800 feet) of cable. The ship was now making a six-day journey to the Australian port of Fremantle to collect new cable and will continue the search with spare sonar equipment, it said. http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/science/ships-searching-for-mh-have-damaged-vital-equipment/article_343e5f52-e731-5737-9968-96e223de518d.html

Wreck may be Chilean barque

Archaeologists believe a shipwreck found in the search of the "Havila Harmony" for MH370 wreckage may have been the Peruvian-built clipper "Inca" that disappeared on its way to Sydney more than 100 years ago. Experts claimed that the underwater drone images of the wreck, found 2,600km southwest of Fremantle, Western Australia, may show all that remains of the "Inca". The barque-style 950 gt-ship set sail from Callao, west of Lima, on Mar 10, 1911 and has not been seen since. Cosmos Archaeology searched the Australian National Shipwreck Database and believed that it could be "Inca" which fits the parameters of the shipwreck identified in the survey imagery. The wreckage was found southwest of Fremantle. The ship was under the command of Captain Barrio. The wreck looks like a large iron or steel sailing ship sitting upright and very intact dating from mid-to-late 19th, possibly early 20th century. It appears it is collapsing in classic iron ship fashion with the bow and stern triangles upright and intact and side plating collapsing out to starboard. It was around 80m long, Report with photos: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3398722/Shipwreck-mistaken-MH370-wreckage-believed-Peruvian-built-ship.html#ixzz3xJYrqyeA