The Washington Post has published an article about how the BentProp Project has enlisted the help of GoPro in its long running project to find and identify downed planes and missing airmen in the waters around Palau.

Once the team finds a downed aircraft, the organization holds a simple flag-folding ceremony in the water over the plane; a retired Navy lieutenant commander receives the flags on behalf of the families, who don’t learn of the finds until they’ve been verified by the U.S. government. The Project aims to: “Repatriate every American service member who has not come home. To provide information and closure to the families of these service members.”

The BentProp Project works with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, based at the University of California, San Diego, and a team from the University of Delaware. Amongst the technology that has been provided in this symbiosis, are both aerial drones and UAVs equipped with GoPro cameras, like those showing the team at work below.