In 1968, a plane carrying three people went missing in Lake Superior. On Thursday, an unmanned autonomous surface vessel was deployed in Houghton on a search to find it.
The effort is a partnership between state agencies, companies and universities, including Michigan Technological University, where a press conference for the deployment was held.
“The demonstration project will be using a 25-foot vessel that belongs to the company Ocean Infinity,” said David Naftzger, the executive director of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers. “What it will be doing over the next week is traveling to the open waters of Lake Superior, hundreds of feet, of water using advanced sonar technology to scan and search to the bottom of Lake Superior to try to find this plane that went down.”
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