First live WiFi broadcast of a sinking ship
Last updated: October 24, 2017 at 21:55 pm
Valeo Films broadcast the first live high definition video of a sinking ship on the Internet on May 27, 2009. The ship was the USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg artificial reef being scuttled off Key West, Florida.
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Jeffrey Gallant is the Editor-in-Chief and Records Keeper of the Diving Almanac. He is also a contributing editor of DIVER Magazine, and the scientific director of the Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group (GEERG). Jeffrey started diving in 1982.