New deep-diving robots expand scientists’ ability to find ancient shipwrecks. The ships’ wooden hulls decompose, but their ceramic amphorae will be preserved, holding clues to ancient civilizations. Above, a vehicle developed at WHOI called SeaBED was used to survey and systematically photograph a shipwreck off the Greek isle of Chios.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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