Phil Parisi uses ROVs to document Lake Union shipwreck targets
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Updated · Fox News · May 5
Phil Parisi uses ROVs to document Lake Union shipwreck targets
6 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 5
In Seattle, he says about 40 of nearly 100 mapped underwater sites have been documented, while roughly half the targets are believed to be wrecks.
Parisi's team uses GPS and sonar-guided robots in murky, polluted water where divers are limited, though docks, reluctant marina owners and corrosion make identification difficult.
The effort builds on earlier sonar surveys and dive records rather than a new discovery, aiming to record current conditions and fill major gaps in Lake Union's maritime history.
With nearly 100 wrecks now being documented, how will this hidden history reshape Seattle's view of its own lake?
As robots reveal a 'shipwreck city,' is climate change destroying it faster than it can be found?
Why is a ghost town of scuttled ships hiding at the bottom of Seattle's Lake Union?