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Plane wreck on the seabed off Sciacca

National Sea Day
The discovery of the University of Palermo as part of the oceanographic campaign financed by ISPRA for the creation of the sheet of the "Sciacca" Geological Map

About 7.5 nautical miles from Sciacca, last March 17, during the acquisition of acoustic data with a Side Scan Sonar, which give images of the seabed, the marine geology group of the University of Palermo detected a submerged body: the acoustic image displayed on the monitor showed a shape similar to an aircraft wreck, about 20 meters long