From the Jan. 9, 2010, Age.
David Mearns is a marine biologist/geologist born in the United states who has been hunting for lost shipwrecks for the past two decades. Among his fifty discoveries have been the Portuguese ship Esmeralda, sunk in 1503 and the Rio Grande found at the depth of 5762 meters.
According to him, finding the Centaur ranks just below his finding of the HMAS Sydney.
The Remora 3 submarine will come within a meter of the Centaur but will not penetrate. Over a period of days, it it expected to find that the lump on the botton they are looking at is actually the Centaur. It took 5 and a half hours to find it.
As for the future, Mr. Mearns won't say, but it is commonly believed that it will be the wreck of Antarctica explorer Ernest Shackleton't Endurance which sank there in 1915.
Move over Mr. Ballard. It looks like there is a new guy in town.
These sunken wrecks are of particular interest to me because at one time I seriously considered doing this line of work for a career before I became a teacher.
Hey, Mr. Mearns, do you need help. Just pay my costs and you've got you man.
Well, Here's Hoping. --Cooter
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