France is to send a remotely operated vehicle to inspect the wreck of the sunken Grande America to assess whether it represents a hazard to the environment and requires removal.
The Grimaldi-controlled, 57,000-gt ship (built 1997) sank 330 kilometres off La Rochelle, western France, last week after a cargo-related fire and is lying at a depth of more than 4,000 metres in the Atlantic.
