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submitted by Archaeology On Kythera on 21.09.2014

The underwater robot employed by the Return to Antikythera Project

The underwater robot employed by the Return to Antikythera Project
Copyright (2014) John Fardoulis

A project of the Hellenic Ministry of culture and Sports, with the support of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Here's the link for daily updates re: the Antikythera shipwreck excavation during fieldwork.

http://antikythera.whoi.edu/blog/

The Underwater robot:

Is currently employed over the Antikythera shipwreck, with the underwater robot (AUV) making the first high resolution digital map of the area using multi-beam sonar.

The photographic shows the robot, minutes before diving to 15 metres above the bottom of the seabed to create a sonar map of the Antikythera shipwreck.

It will do various missions, next taking stereo photographs to create a detailed 3D model of the site.

This update was provided live from the support vessel POSEIDON, at sea, over the top of the Antikythera shipwreck using Cosmote 4G technology.

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