Dino-Chouest

The 'Dino Couest' sailed on July 12, 2024, from Providence, Rhode Island. The company RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST, Inc.) in Georgia with salvage rights to the RMS Titanic is undertaking its first trip to the ship’s wreckage since 2010. Explorers have both heavy hearts and lofty goals for this ninth trip to Titanic. The voyage comes as undersea explorers worldwide remembered the deadly accident when the 'Titan', an experimental submersible, imploded en route to the Titanic on June 23, 2023. The disaster killed all five people on board. The Coast Guard is still investigating the tragedy. This year’s expedition will use modern imaging technology and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). Scientists hope to capture detailed images of the wreckage site and the debris field and allow to document the Titanic in unprecedented detail and share new discoveries from the wreck site with the public. The 'Dino Chouest' will take several days to reach the shipwreck site. The ship will return around Aug 13. The company hopes to create a detailed study of the current condition of the Titanic wreckage site. Another goal is a detailed survey of artifacts for possible future recovery. The 'Dino Chouest' is equipped with two ROVs. They will capture the first end-to-end mapping image of the wreck field and debris site. The trip will also include the highest resolution camera systems ever deployed at the site in an effort to bring new insights about the ship.

The "Dino Chouest" took the decommissioned aircraft carrier, USS "Independence" in tow from Bremerton to breakers in Brownsville, Texas. The first leg of the long 16,000 mile journey that will take the 60,000-ton super carrier around the tip of South America, transiting the Strait of Magellan and eventually into EMR Group’s International Shipbreaking yard in Brownsville, Texas. USS "Independence" left on her final journey on March 11, 2017, from the Kitsap Naval Base in Bremerton, Washington to Brownsville, Texas, and was expected to take just under three months. The journey will involve navigating down the West coast of the Americas and then back up the East coast of South America. She follows two of her fellow Navy vessels to the same site in Brownsville – the USS "Constellation" and the USS "Ranger". The Brownsville site is a metal recycling yard operated by International Shipbreaking Ltd., part of the EMR Group. The company won the Navy bid to recycle the the last of the Forrestal-class supercarriers. Preparations at the Brownsville yard were complete and the team is ready in anticipation for her arrival.