the families live in hope of this lifting. This request was examined and the Official Journal of 16 June 2018 announced the declassification of the archives concerning the disappearance of the Minerve. Relaunch of the search for the wreck On 14 October 2018, the Var-Matin a French newspaper published an article in which it informed that, on the initiative of Hervé Fauve, eighteen of the families of the 52 sailors of the Minerve had sent an open letter to various elected representatives of the Toulon harbour to request the resumption of the search for the wreck of the submarine. The submarine was the only missing Western submarine that had not been found since the end of World War II. Following this publication Hervé Fauve succeeded in mobilising all the families of the crew, active and retired sailors and the French media to support this request. On 5 February 2019, the Minister of the Armed Forces announced a resumption of the search 50 years after the last campaign. The French government started a new search for Minerve on 4 July 2019 in deep waters about south of Toulon. The discovery of the location of the wreck was found on 21 July 2019 by the company Ocean Infinity using the search ship . The wreck was found at a depth of , broken into three main pieces scattered over along the seabed. Although Minerves sail was destroyed, identifying the wreckage was possible, as the letters "MINE" and "S" (from Minerve and S647, respectively) were still readable on the hull. Memorial On the day of her discovery, 22 July 2019, Squadron Vice-Admiral Charles-Henri du Ché, responsible for the search, declared that the remains of the submarine would be left untouched and would become a maritime sanctuary. A ceremony is to be held in the location where Minerve vanished with the relatives of the submariners in attendance. In December 2019, Victor Vescovo proposed to Hervé Fauve a dive on the wreck of the Minerve with his two-seat deep-submersible Limiting Factor . The Department of Underwater Archaeological Research (DRASSM), under the administration of the Ministry of Culture, which is responsible for the study and protection of France's submerged heritage organized dives on the Minerve wreck. On the first dive, 1 February 2020, Vescovo dived with retired French Rear Admiral Jean-Louis Barbier, who was contacted by Hervé Fauve, to gather new information on the cause of