Underwater Drone Detects Strange Object at 2,567 Meters; It Turns Out to Be France’s Deepest-Known Shipwreck

Underwater Drone Detects Strange Object at 2,567 Meters; It Turns Out to Be France’s Deepest-Known Shipwreck

For a while, it looked like just another anomaly on a sonar screen. The French Navy was surveying the seabed off Ramatuelle, near Saint-Tropez, in early March 2025 when an underwater drone picked up something large more than 2,500 meters below the surface. A follow-up look with a camera suggested this was no rock formation. It was a ship. What emerged from the images was a wreck so deep that no one had catalogued anything like it before in Frenc…