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In March 2025 a French Navy drone was mapping the seabed south of Saint-Tropez when its sonar picked up something large that nobody had recorded. A camera sent down after it found a merchant ship from the 1500s lying 2,567 meters down, the deepest

Source: Space Daily · Published Sep 9, 2026, 8:30 AM

In Science, Space Daily puts this story at the center of the day: In March 2025 a French Navy drone was mapping the seabed south of Saint-Tropez when its sonar picked up something large that nobody had recorded. A camera sent down after it found a merchant ship from the 1500s lying 2,567 meters down, the deepest Space Daily FlexChar is surfacing it because it is driving searches and conversation right now.

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