A Public Campaign to Find Minerve
In 2018, when the emotional pressure became unbearable, Herve and several other relatives of the lost crew started a public campaign to have the search for the ship re-kindled. By then, Minerve was the only French vessel that remained unknown after it sank as all the others were discovered. The campaign gained public interest, and with mounting pressure, the French government commissioned a search mission. They had finally buckled to reason.
A Public Campaign To Find Minerve
Minerve Found After More Than Half Century
After more than 50 of inactivity, the authorities fired-up search efforts in July 2019 to try and find the sub that went missing. Seabed Constructor, a search vessel operated by American firm Ocean Infinity, got detailed information on the area where the ship had reported missing in the Mediterranean. Then, on July 22, a long-awaited message was publicly declared – the lost submarine’s wreckage site was found at an estimated 7,700 feet below the seabed.
Minerve Found After More Than Half Century
