Survey Area
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Several documents refer to Breezy Point and/or East Caicos as the wreck location of Trouvadore. It was assumed this is a reference to modern day Breezy Point, a prominence on the north shore of East Caicos that extends out almost to the reef fringing the north coast of the island.
There is a prominence approximately 2.5 km East of Breezy Point called Thatch Cay, and another about 2.5km to the West called Black Rock. It is also reasonable to assume that if Trouvadore had wrecked closer to one of these points, those locations would have been mentioned instead of Breezy Point. This narrowed the search to the area between the reef and the shore around Breezy Point. The target area encompassed an area approximately 5.5 kilometers long by 800 meters wide. The water depth in the lagoon is a maximum of 23 feet (7 m). Scattered large coral heads dot the lagoon and finger reefs extend shoreward from the fringing reef. Outside the fringing reef, which is often visible at low tide, the water depth slowly drops off to 60 feet (20 m) before plunging several thousand meters. The maximum water depth in the search area outside the reef is approximately 30 feet (9 m).
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