Mapping Near Shore Areas of Newfoundland

Exploring the maritime cultural landscape of the Grand Banks and near shore areas of Newfoundland, including Placentia Bay, will examine more than five centuries of human use and impact on one of the historically most important parts of the Atlantic Ocean. Almost no region offers more opportunities to examine the interplay between technology, the environment, markets, and culture than this once teeming region of the sea and its adjacent waters.

This expedition is designed to generate important data and identify significant submerged cultural resources. There will be two phases. The first phase will comprise the beginning of a systematic survey of the Grand Banks. We propose to run a single transect, 250 miles long, across the Banks from their southeastern corner to Cape Race, and then a second transect from Cape Race to Placentia Bay.
The second phase will comprise simultaneous acoustic survey (using the AUV) and ROV operations (from onboard Endeavor) in the vicinity of Cape Race and Placentia Bay