Block Canyon Bathymetry
Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. Download larger version (mp4, 31.6 MB).

This video shows the location of an unknown shipwreck, indicated with a red pin, 70 nautical miles south of Block Island, Rhode Island, at the edge of the continental shelf break at Block Canyon. The wreck was mapped by NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research in 2011. Created in QPS Fledermaus.

Background data reference: Sandwell, D. T., R. D. Müller, W. H. F. Smith, E. Garcia, R. Francis, New global marine gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 reveals buried tectonic structure, Science, Vol. 346, no. 6205, pp. 65-67, doi: 10.1126/science.1258213, 2014.

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