The first images of these submarine channels showing them to be of great size, were obtained in 1999 during a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu. In 2002, a survey carried out on board the Ifremer RV Le Suroit for BlaSON project (Lericolais, et al., 2003) completed the multibeam mapping of this underwater channel fan-delta. A complete map was published in 2009 using these previous results together with high quality mapping obtained in 2006 (by researchers at Memorial University of Newfoundland who were project partners in the study).
the first images of these submarine channels showing them to be of great size were obtained in 1999 during a nato saclant undersea research project using jointly the nato rv alliance and the turkish navy survey ship çubuklu in 2002 a survey carried out on board the ifremer rv le suroit for blason project (lericolais et al 2003) completed the multibeam mapping of this underwater channel fan-delta a complete map was published in 2009 using these previous results together with high quality mapping obtained in 2006 (by researchers at memorial university of newfoundland who were project partners in the study)