wreck

On the dark, chilly bottom of the sea off the coast of Ramatuelle, France, early in March 2025, a French Navy drone swept the silt with its sonar beam — a form, large and out of context, 2.5 kms (1.595 miles) down. The shadow grudgingly cohered into something recognizably human in origin: the skeletal hulk of a vessel, lying undisturbed for over 500 years. It has now affirmatively been identified as the deepest maritime shipwreck ever discovered in French territorial waters! What was next was affirmed weeks later by France's Department of Underwater and Submarine Archaeological Research (DRASSM): the wreckage was a 16th-century merchant ship, now officially referred to as Camarat 4. It's in the same underwater repository of Mediterranean