Finding boxes lost from Rena wreck

A container is seen on the seabed using the WASSP multibeam system.

A multibeam sonar is being used to good effect by hydrographic surveyors at the grounding site of the 236m cargo vessel MV Rena on the Astrolabe Reef off the coast of New Zealand.

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