DOS is working with Ocean Infinity on the seabed search for the lost flight MH370 Boeing 777 aircraft which disappeared off the West coast of Australia. DOS provides a number of their key personnel to this operation including an offshore manager (Client Representative), a senior sonar analyst (Target Master) and 4 surveyors. DOS personnel have…
DOS have supplied ATSB with MS804 example-data to assist MH370 search With the agreement of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority and the French Safety Investigation Authority (BEA), DOS have supplied the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) with side scan sonar data of the MS804 crash site in order to assist with the on-going MH370 search.
DOS announces the departure of Research Vessel John Lethbridge It is with regret that DOS announces the departure of our vessel John Lethbridge which has been the home for our survey and marine teams for the last 6 years. She has taken us safely and without breakdown across the Atlantic several times and has ranged…
MS804Plane crash investigationOn 19th May 2016, flight MS804 was lost at sea south of Greece in a water depth of 3,000m. DOS was contacted to offer a solution to find the aircraft and to recover the flight recorders, aircraft debris and other material lying on seabed. After less than 4 days from the start of operations in…
Egyptair flight MS804 – Press Release #2 Following the announcement by Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation and French BEA, DOS ltd confirms the recovery of both MS804’s black boxes: the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) on the 16th of June 2016 and the Flight Data Recorder on the 17th of June 2016. At this moment, DOS…
Flight Egyptair MS804 – Press Release #1 Thank you for your interest for DOS ltd. Following the announcement by Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation and French BEA, DOS ltd confirms the discovery of Flight MS804 wreckage site(s). At the moment, DOS ltd is not authorized to supply any pictures, videos, chart and/or positions linked with…
MH370 – frequently asked questions about DOS MH370 could potentially be in a water depth of 6000 meters. Does DOS have full ocean depth capability? Our deep tow side scan sonar Mak-ix and our ROV Comanche are both rated to 6,000m. Both assets have worked continuously for extended periods at depths down to 5,900m. What…
Deepest salvage of cargo from a shipwreck! DOS world record for the deepest salvage of cargo from a shipwreck has been published on Guinness website. Abstract: The British passenger steamship SS City of Cairo was torpedoed on 6 November 1942 by a German submarine and sank with the loss of 104 lives. In April 2015, it was…
Wreck S.S. City Of Cairo – World record salvage at 5150m! Under contract to the UK Ministry of Transport, DOS recovered close to a hundred tons of silver coins from steam ship City Of Cairo laying at a depth of 5150m – a world depth record. The SS City of Cairo (Captain William Rogerson) was…
