https://phys.org/news/2020-12-diver...GoheeLk1DKiCN0r5XWPkM_Xxk5q3mw9HpVNX7ARXnkoq4
The legendary code machine was discovered last month during a search for abandoned fishing nets in the Bay of Gelting in northeast Germany, by divers on assignment for environmental group WWF.
"A colleague swam up and said: there's a net there with an old typewriter in it," Florian Huber, the lead diver, told the DPA news agency.
The team quickly realised they had stumbled across a historic artefact and alerted the authorities.
Ulf Ickerodt, head of the state archaeological office in Germany's Schleswig-Holstein region, said the machine would be restored by experts at the state's archaeology museum.
The delicate process, including a thorough desalination process after seven decades in the Baltic seabed, "will take about a year", he said.
The legendary code machine was discovered last month during a search for abandoned fishing nets in the Bay of Gelting in northeast Germany, by divers on assignment for environmental group WWF.
"A colleague swam up and said: there's a net there with an old typewriter in it," Florian Huber, the lead diver, told the DPA news agency.
The team quickly realised they had stumbled across a historic artefact and alerted the authorities.
Ulf Ickerodt, head of the state archaeological office in Germany's Schleswig-Holstein region, said the machine would be restored by experts at the state's archaeology museum.
The delicate process, including a thorough desalination process after seven decades in the Baltic seabed, "will take about a year", he said.
