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Article: Four shipwrecks uncovered off Cape Breton by ‘The Death Coast’ crew

Not one, but several shipwrecks with lost treasure have been found off the coast of Nova Scotia and in part thanks to the use NORBIT subsea sonars.

Oceans Subsea

Published 2nd June 2025

This image is courtesy of McElhanney and taken with a NORBIT iWBMS Xh sonar. It shows one of the shipwreck sites and Cpt. Jeff MacKinnon said you can see a couple of cannons in it as well as the ballast pile – small rocks that were used to keep the ship properly trimmed. CONTRIBUTED

Working with a Cape Breton based captain and crew, geomatics firm McElhanney used the ultra-compact and highly configurable iWBMS Xh as part of the search efforts and historic discovery of the wrecks with coins, emeralds and other suspected treasure.

Checkout the below news piece, and Season 1 of the ‘The Death Coast’ streaming on the History Channel (USA) and Crave and USA Network (Canada), to learn more and see history be uncovered through the use of subsea sonar.