Preparing for the Next Phase

Digital mapping of the Antikythera shipwreck is done for 2014, with the engineers from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney spending the day processing data collected by Sirius, the underwater robot.

The diving team is getting ready for the next phase, which will be a metal detector survey, then opening some test trenches to see what may lay beneath the sand and silt on the wreck.

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Diver, Athanassios Chronopoulos testing the hydrolift near the port of Potamos.
Diver, Athanassios Chronopoulos testing the hydrolift near the port of Potamos in Antikythera.
And testing an airlift as another option
And testing an airlift near the Antikythera port of Potamos as another option.