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Steven Saint-Amour

Steven Dustin Saint-Amour (born 1964) is a deep water search and recovery expert and internationally recognized as an authority in the field of aviation and marine casualty investigations. He is the principle designer and operator of the REMORA Class ROVs (Remote Operated Vehicles) which have been used on a number of international civil and military air crash investigations in water depths to 19,100 fsw. He is co-founder of Phoenix International (the US Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage’s contractor for worldwide search and recovery) and the Eclipse Group (the US Navy’s Naval Undersea Warfare Logistics Contractor). Through Phoenix International he and his purposed built ROVs have been responsible for locating, scrutinizing and/or recovering the wreckage of a significant number of historical ship and submarine wrecks along with the majority of the in-water civil aviation accidents of the 21st century. The more notables being:

•	2011 – Search and Recovery Air France Flight 447 		       Depth 3,900 meters •	2010 – Search and Recovery 17th Century wreck			Depth 5,400 meters •	2011 – Inspection of the RMS TITANIC			               Depth 3,700 meters •	2010 – Search and Inspection AHS CENTUAR 			       Depth 1,200 meters •	2010 – Search and Recovery USN E2-C Hawkeye		       Depth 3,500 meters •	2009 – Search and Recovery Yemeni Air Airbus 310 		       Depth 1,200 meters •	2007 – Search and Recovery Adam Air, Boeing 737 		       Depth 1,400 meters •	2005 – Search and Recovery Tunic ATR – 72			       Depth 1,450 meters •	2004 – Search for JAMSTECH H-2 Rocket			               Depth 5,900 meters •	2003 – Search and Recovery USN F-14 Tomcat	 		       Depth 3,200 meters •	2003 – Search and Recovery USN SH 60 Helicopter 		       Depth 2,900 meters •	2001 – Inspection of the RMS TITANIC 			               Depth 3,700 meters •	2000 -Recovery of the INS/DAKAR forward sail section  	        Depth 3,000 meters •	2000 – Search and Recovery of a IAF F-16 			       Depth 1,400 meters •	2000 – Search and Recovery for JAMS TECH-2 Rocket 		Depth 3,400 meters •	1999 – Discovery of the Israeli Submarine INS DAKAR	 	Depth 3,000 meters

Saint-Amour is an active member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI) and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME). He routinely writes articles and conducts seminars on behalf of these and other professional organizations. Aviation Disasters Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled airline flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009, killing all 216 passengers and 12 aircrew.[3] The investigation is still ongoing, and the cause of the crash has not yet been formally determined. An interim report from the BEA (Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety) on 27 May 2011 revealed that the aircraft crashed following an aerodynamic stall. It further revealed that minutes prior to the crash, the pitot tubes (speed sensors) started to give inconsistent readings. The cause of the faulty readings is yet to be determined, but a theory is that ice formed on the pitot tubes, which would have caused them to freeze, giving inconsistent measurements owing to their reliance on air pressure measurements to give speed readings.[4][5] Pitot tube blockage is suspected of having contributed to airliner crashes in the past — such as Birgenair Flight 301 in 1996.[6] A later report from the BEA, released on 29 July 2011, indicated that the pilots had not been trained to fly the aircraft by hand or to recognize signs of malfunctioning speed sensors.[7] This was the deadliest commercial airliner accident to occur since the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New York City in 2001[12] and certainly the deadliest in the history of Air France.[9][10] Paul-Louis Arslanian, the head of the BEA described it as the worst accident in French aviation history.[11] It was the first fatal accident to befall an Airbus A330 airliner while in passenger service. The investigation into this accident was severely hampered by the lack of any eyewitness evidence or radar tracks, as well as by the difficulty of finding the aircraft's black boxes, which were located and recovered from the ocean floor two years later in May 2011.[1][8] Yemenia Flight 626 was an Airbus A310-324 twin-engine jet airliner, operated by Yemenia as a scheduled international flight from Sana'a, Yemen, to Moroni, Comoros, that crashed on 30 June 2009 while on approach to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport; killing all but one of the 153 passengers and crew on board.[2][3] Adam Air Flight 574 (KI-574) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight, operated by Adam Air between the Indonesian cities of Surabaya (SUB) and Manado (MDC),[2] that disappeared near Polewali in Sulawesi on 1 January 2007.[3] The plane, a Boeing 737-4Q8, was ultimately determined to have crashed into the ocean, from which some smaller pieces of wreckage have been recovered. The flight recorders ("black boxes") were retrieved from the ocean on 28 August 2007, while salvage efforts for some larger pieces of wreckage continued.[4] All 102 people on board died. This was the highest death toll of any aviation accident involving a Boeing 737-400.[5] A full national investigation was immediately launched into the disaster, uncovering multiple maintenance issues concerning the airline as a whole, including a large number concerning the aircraft. Another possibility proposed by the families of some of the deceased is that the crash was due to a faulty rudder valve, known to have caused previous accidents and incidents on Boeing 737s. Debris location indicated that the plane likely struck the ocean intact. The final report, released on 25 March 2008, concluded that the pilots lost control of the aircraft after they became preoccupied with troubleshooting the inertial reference system and inadvertently disconnected the autopilot.[1] US Navy F-14 - A Grumman F-14B-145-GR Tomcat, from the carrier USS John F. Kennedy, crashed into the Mediterranean near the Greek island of Crete, killing its pilot.[21] The aircraft was launching from the carrier when the nose gear disintegrated - both crew ejected but the pilot was outside the envelope and was killed. The Kennedy was conducting routine flight-training operations in the Med, 50 nautical miles south of Crete, when the accident occurred; 2 March 2003. US Navy SH-60B Seahawk - A helicopter with a three-person crew from the USS Hayler crashed March 12, 2002 in the Mediterranean Sea near Greece. The U.S. Sixth Fleet reported the chopper went down some 80 nautical miles off the Greek west coast while it was on a routine flight. The Hayler and USS Ross were conducted search and rescue operation for the three crew members in that region, no other reports were provided.

[edit] Bibliography [edit] References ASME - Robots Plumb the Depths 1.	 “Robots Plumb the Depths”. 2011-7 via ASME.org 2.	 http://www.asme.org/kb/news---articles/articles/robotics/robots-plumb-the-depths 1.	Air France crash 'flight recorder' part found - CNN articles.cnn.com/.../air.france.447.airbus.recorder_1_wreckage-fran... 3.	 “Air France crash ‘flight recorder’ part found “ CNN.com 2011-04-29 http://news.maars.net/blog/2011/04/29/air-france-crash-flight-recorder-part-found/ 2.	Discovery Channel: News from The Search - Dispatch 5 “Search For The USS INDIANAPOLIS” http://www.discovery.com/exp/indianapolis/prev_news5.html 1.	Phil Malone's Titanic message in a bottle story. www.mr-phil.com/message/ - Cached My work-mate (Steve Saint-Amour) and I were readying a small Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) in the event that it was needed to dive on the Titanic wreck. ... 1.	Conditions Under Bridge Collapse Make Underwater Recovery Not-So ... www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/4220050 - Cached- 1.	PDF] The Atlantis Project discoveryofatlantis.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/.../Atlantis-team-main.pd... 1.	The Sub That Vanished - Mechanical Engineering Magazine www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/august99/.../sub.ht... - Cached St. Amour observed that, despite the prevailing desire for ever larger and more powerful machines ... 1999 by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 1.	Dakar is Found - NAUTICOS www.nauticos.com/press/06-01-99.htm - Cached- Block all www.nauticos.com results 1.	Why Cameron Is Diving Deep on Gulf Oil - NYTimes.com dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/.../why-cameron-is-diving-deep-on-gulf... - Cached 1.	CONSIDERING TECHNICAL OPTIONS FOR CONTROLLING THE BP BLOWOUT IN ... 2.	Ghosts-of-the-Abyss - Cast, Crew, Director and Awards - NYTimes.com movies.nytimes.com/movie/282938/Ghosts-of-the-Abyss/credits http://www.eucom.mil/english/FullStory.asp?article=U-S-Naval-aviator-dies-Eastern-Mediterranean-Crash •	Elizabeth Gosch, "Maritime legend" The Australian (April 11, 2008) http://articles.cnn.com/2002-03-12/world/italy.helicopter_1_military-helicopter-crashes-sh-60b-seahawk-routine-flight?_s=PM:WORLD [edit] External links •	Blue Water Recoveries (official website) This oceanography article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This biography related to ship transport is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.