Recovery
A diving support vessel, the MSV Deepwater One, started a search for the sunken wreckage at 09:00 the following morning. Sea conditions were rough with strong tidal currents and a water depth around 90 metres but the wreckage was located. The monohulled "Deepwater One " struggled to maintain position in the building sea and current conditions. Shell Expro's Multi Services Vessel the MSV "Stadive" arrived and assumed the role of primary recovery vessel and being a semi-submersible was able to quickly recover the major components of interest and by the evening of 10 November the cockpit voice recorder, the cockpit section of the fuselage, the rotors and rotor heads and the gearboxes and associated control systems had been recovered and transferred to the "Deepwater One" which departed for Aberdeen to pass her cargo onwards for analysis by the AAIB. The "Stadive" remained on site and recovered much of the remainder of the fuselage and the bodies of the victims. In all, 44 of the 45 victims bodies were recovered.
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