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Virtual Scylla Virtual Marine Ecosystem

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In 2006, researchers from the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham took part in a new survey of Europe’s first artificial wreck, the Leander Class Frigate HMS Scylla, resting on the sea bed off Whitsand Bay near Plymouth. Prof. Bob Stone and Eugene Ch’ng joined forces with colleagues from the University of Plymouth, the National Marine Aquarium (NMA) and the Marine Biological Association (MBA). The group departed for the wreck site from Plymouth’s historic Barbican onboard the UK National, a boat skippered by Prof. Richard Linford, Head of the University of Plymouth’s Department of Communication & Electronic Engineering (Prof. Stone is currently a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Integrated Systems Design within this Department).
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