An international team of researchers seems to have found a way to detect shipwrecks using data from the NASA/USGS Landsat 8 satellite in sediment-laden coastal areas.

An international team of researchers appear to have found a way to detect shipwrecks using data from the NASA/USGS Landsat 8 satellite in sediment-laden coastal areas.

Shipwrecks often leave sediment plumes after they sink to the seafloor. Such plumes can reach the surface of the ocean and thus reveal the location of the ship causing the sediment to rise.

According to a summary of the findings, the study was "conducted in a coastal area off of the Belgium port of Zeebrugge...The researchers started with the known location of four fully submerged shipwrecks in their study site...the researchers mapped sediment plumes extending from the wr