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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I haven't seen much of the resources dedicated to this search, beyond a couple of Canadian and US coast guard ships. Canadian P-8's and American C-130s. they're also trying to get ROV's into the area.
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I've also been trying to figure out what assets Canada is deploying for this. Media coverage has mangled a lot of the details. So far it seems like:
- 1 CP-140 Aurora from 14 Wing Greenwood (ha, we wish we had P-8s...)
- HMCS Glace Bay (Kingston Class Coastal Defence, equipped with a mobile hyperbaric chamber)
-CCGS John Cabot (Fisheries Support)
- HMCS Harry De Wolfe
- CCGS Kopit Hopson (Ice breaker)
- Various SAR assets (C-130's) at the direction of JRCC Halifax
So other than the Aurora, there doesn't seem to be a lot of ASW capabilities from Canada. Worth nothing that the De Wolf and Hopson have flight decks which might be able to host a Cyclone (assuming the ASW capabilities for that have been completed...) Perhaps the surface search is the focus for us.