Into the deep

• Autores: Mark Harris
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2972, 2014, págs. 19-20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The world's most advanced robotic diving suit is getting ready to help search for one of the world's oldest computers. Called Exosuit, the suit has a rigid metal humanoid form with Iron Man-like thrusters that enable divers to operate safely down to depths of 300 meters. Though designed for diving in the bowels of New York City's water treatment plants, earlier this month it underwent its first trials in seawater at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts. The tests are readying the suit for a daring attempt to excavate an ancient Roman shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in the Aegean Sea. A century ago, divers pulled the world's oldest computer--the Antikythera mechanism--from the wreck. They are hoping that they will find a second device when they go down in September.