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Wreck of Australian Warship HMAS Sydney Found?

Posted by kdawson on from the frieght-and-salvage dept.

Mendy writes "Tim Ankers, a British archaeologist, claims to have found the wreck of the HMAS Sydney, lost with all hands in the Indian Ocean during World War II. He says that he's done this from the comfort of his home using software he wrote called Merlindown, which can analyze satellite photographs at different wavelengths to 'peer 75 meters into the earth and 16,000 meters beneath the seas.'"

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  1. 16000meters is a bit off by hedley · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Mariana trench is only about 10900 meters. Whats he imaging at 16000? Sounds a bit crusty to me.

    H.

    1. Re:16000meters is a bit off by mce · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The 16000 meters claim does not say that he did that, it only says that the software can. Like in: "This is the physics involved, this is what we can get on terms of picture quality, and based on all that the maximum we can do would be 16000. And it turns out we're lucky that the ocean ain't that deep anywhere."

      Having said that, I still don't believe it.

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  2. i call bullshit by timmarhy · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "analyze satellite photographs at different wavelengths"

    he's popped this in to sound clever, but the reality all he could have done is take exisiting data the same as whats on google earth and examined the colour gradients in an attempt to identify shapes which could possibly be a sunken ship. problem is the resolution on those photo's is WAY too low to identify a ship let alone confidently proclaim to know WHICH ship it is.

    in other words he's an attention seeking moron. i'll take that back when he goes there's a brings back some proof. i'm confident he won't

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  3. but water is opaque by l2718 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    in IR, UV and X-ray frequencies ... so what radiation is he seeing from 3km under the water? (not to speak of 75m into the earth). Theory is nice and fine, but until it is verified by experiment I'd take it with a grain of salt.

  4. Re:Uh, it is a big deal. A very big deal... by prof_peabody · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The deepest part of the ocean is 10,900 m. So where is he seeing through 16,000 m of ocean?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench

  5. All Nuclear Submarines Located by Pizaz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then supposedly a more real time version of this software using up to date satellite feeds could detect all of the submarines "hiding" in the oceans? Hoax?

  6. Re:Sunken Warships on Google Earth by JackMeyhoff · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are basing your assumption on Goggle image quality, not what is available if you PAY up for quality data.

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  7. Re:Uh, it is a big deal. A very big deal... by hax0r_this · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If its obvious then you can bet the government doesn't do it.