The data for the images of the sunken vessels SS Tiberia and RMS Leinster, submitted as entries to the Kongsberg Discovery Multibeam Image Contest 2023, was captured during seabed mapping carried out by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) in Belfast and by the Irish Marine Institute in collaboration with Ulster University, respectively. These and a multitude of other wrecks speak to the need for ongoing monitoring, both for heritage preservation and to manage potential environmental risk.
The Kongsberg Discovery Image Contest was established in 2014 and is open to all professional users of the company’s family of single and multibeam echosounders (MBES).