And “the Holy Grail of shipwrecks” stayed underwater, undiscovered for more than 300 years. Enter a tiny submersible robot named Remus 6000 — packed with sensors and cameras and capable of diving four miles underwater — that has discovered the centuries-old final resting place of the sunken ship. Remus 6000 has used the same tactic to find the remains of Air France 447, two years after it crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009. New details were released Monday from the agencies involved in the search, including the Colombian military that ferried Remus 6000 to the search location. Jeff Kaeli, one of the engineers who operates the Remus 6000, said he was in his bunk when the first pictures came in.

Source: Washington Post May 23, 2018 21:29 UTC