Space Daily September 09, 2026 • 06:30

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

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

The accidental discovery of a 500-year-old merchant ship in the deepest waters off France raises questions about how many other wrecks lie hidden in the abyss, waiting to rewrite maritime history.

The drone was not looking for a shipwreck. It was working through a stretch of seabed off Ramatuelle, near Saint-Tropez in southeastern France, as part of a government project to map the deep floor a… [+5321 chars]

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