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The French Secretary of State for Transport, Thierry Mariani, and the Director of the Office of Investigations and Analysis (BEA), Jean-Paul Troadec, will meet tomorrow with the families of victims of the Air France flight AF447 disaster. They are expected to give the families a presentation on details of the new Phase 4 search location, according to a statement by the Department of Ecology.
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"Alucia" is the support vessel to be used by the REMUS AUV team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the deployment of two AUVs provided by the Waitt Institute. The vessel has been moored in Seattle and recently (2011-01-30) undertook a short sea trial on Puget Sound, and is currently moored near the sea-plane base on the SE side of Lake Union. She is expected to depart Seattle in a few days time to proceed into the Gulf of Mexico via the Panama Canal.