HMS Echo will return to Gibraltar on Friday 31^st May for a short visit before heading out to the Med to conduct routine operational survey work. Her last visit was in August 2012 when she stayed for a few days following an 18 month deployment to the east of Suez to help improve charts of the region’s waters and to gather key hydrographic data.

This proved to be a very successful tour and In July 2012 she made a previously uncharted discovery when she found an underwater ‘sea mount’ the size of the Rock of Gibraltar beneath the Red Sea.