1. An effort to locate the wreck with sonar was postponed today because of continuing high winds and choppy seas in the Baltic off the coast of Turku, Finland. 2. An initial attempt two weeks ago by state historians to locate the wreck failed. 3. Rescuers said locating a wreck would be easier in old-growth woods with a broken canopy. 4. Ballard, who has located the wrecks of the Bismarck, USS Yorktown and Lusitania, used remote cameras to search for the boat. 5. Ballard, who has located the wrecks of the Bismarck, USS Yorktown and Lusitania, had planned to use remote cameras to search for the boat. 6. Divers who located the wreck confirmed on Tuesday the remarkable story of how a single crewman managed to survive the sinking. 7. The U.S. military hired a salvage ship with a deep-sea probe to locate the wreck. 8. Bad weather hampered coast guard efforts to use sonar to locate the wreck, Tiilikainen said, but new efforts would be made on Friday. 9. Meanwhile a Finnish sonar ship fitted with a hi-tech echo-sounding system and a submarine robot located the wreck after arriving at the site in the mid-afternoon. 10. The leak was picked up by a camera on the sonar ship which located the wreck. |