Discovering shipwrecks from your desktop

[BlueTrin]

Publicly available bathymetric surveys will put me out of business, poor fishes.

What’s your job?

 

[Vicko]

A fisherman at the moment.
Adriatic is a small sea with very little fish, most of it slow growing. Combine that with little to no control the only thing protecting the fish is that most people are to lazy to put in work and find the spots. If we had a public list of wrecks like NOAA makes I would have to go get a real job, and I'm allergic to those.

 

[BlueTrin]

A fisherman at the moment.
Adriatic is a small sea with very little fish, most of it slow growing. Combine that with little to no control the only thing protecting the fish is that most people are to lazy to put in work and find the spots. If we had a public list of wrecks like NOAA makes I would have to go get a real job, and I'm allergic to those.

I was about to say, someone could make an AI to find wrecks using this data

I am allergic to actually doing work unless under duress from my management, so at least you are safe from me

 

[Eric802]

Well, as part of my ongoing effort to avoid the actual work for which I am paid, I spent a bit of time this afternoon using the resources in the video to find a (previously documented) wreck in Lake Huron. Time well wasted.

 

[100days-a-year]

There is AI already being used to extract possible shipwrecks from bathymetric data.
I scanned a swath 300' wide to find wrecks and structure that might hold fish or lobster. It took several hours to mark each potential wreck and reef.

 

[Jared0425]

in the "Wreck or Rock" post I talked about using online open source resources to locate wrecks and try and characterize them. A lot of you were interested in the process I use for this and so I have put together the first of two videos on it. In the first video we will look at using Google Earth, importing data from open source databases, and verifying wrecks with the NOAA bathymetry site. In the second video, we will learn how to export data from the bathymetry site back into Google Earth and use the tools in GE to learn more about targets.


Links mentioned in the video:

Google Earth: earth.google.com

AWOIS and ENC databases: nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/data/wrecks-and-obstructions.html

Bathymetry data: ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/

So, here is your homework. Using the tools in the video, find and document a wreck near you, or one you would like to dive on and post it to this thread. Questions are always welcome!

NOAA doesn't like to share their stuff they have done on the Great Lakes.

Well, as part of my ongoing effort to avoid the actual work for which I am paid, I spent a bit of time this afternoon using the resources in the video to find a (previously documented) wreck in Lake Huron. Time well wasted.

What wreck?

 

[SlugLife]

I was about to say, someone could make an AI to find wrecks using this data

I am allergic to actually doing work unless under duress from my management, so at least you are safe from me

I'd probably not use "AI," but rather create software that looks for roughly certain shapes and sizes.

The thing with AI, is you started with 1-problem you were trying to solve, added AI, and now have 3.

 

[BoltSnap]

A fisherman at the moment.
Adriatic is a small sea with very little fish, most of it slow growing. Combine that with little to no control the only thing protecting the fish is that most people are to lazy to put in work and find the spots. If we had a public list of wrecks like NOAA makes I would have to go get a real job, and I'm allergic to those.

Do you have problems with dynamite fishing there?

 

[Eric802]

NOAA doesn't like to share their stuff they have done on the Great Lakes.

What wreck?

It’s identified as either the Johnson or Oscar Flint, in Thunder Bay.

 

[Vicko]

The only bathymetry data for the Adriatic that's in any useful resolution is stuck behind million dollar paywalls, so no AI yet to help.

Do you have problems with dynamite fishing there?

No problem at all, the war we had 30 years ago keeps me well stocked with explosive ordinance.
Why do people on scubaboard keep asking me that, I think you are the third one this year.