Deep-sea robot photographs ancient Greek shipwreck

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LtoR: Kostas Katsaros and Aggellos Malios and Chris Roman recover the SeaBED autonomous robot after a dive to the shipwreck at Chios. The first two guys are with the Hellenic agency and the third is from WHOI. July 2005. PHOTO Matt Grund
LtoR: Kostas Katsaros and Aggellos Malios and Chris Roman recover the SeaBED autonomous robot after a dive to the shipwreck at Chios. The first two guys are with the Hellenic agency and the third is from WHOI. July 2005. PHOTO/ Matt Grund

Sometime in the fourth century B.C., a Greek merchant ship sank off Chios and the Oinoussai islands in the eastern Aegean Sea. The wooden vessel may have succumbed to a storm or a fire, or maybe rough weather caused the cargo of 400 ceramic jars filled with wine and olive oil to shift without warning. The ship went down in 60 meters (about 200 feet) of water, where it remained unnoticed for centuries.


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