Sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera pulled a corroded bronze lump from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901. It turned out to be a hand-cranked mechanical computer with at least 30 precisely cut gears, built around 100 BCE to predict eclipses and planetary positions — and nothing comparable would appear on Earth for another 1,400 years. The post Georgios Kritikos died of decompression sickness during the ten-month salvage of the Antikythera wreck and two of his crewmates were left paralysed, and the site they were dragged off has spent the century since giving up marble heads, human teeth and a skeleton to divers who keep going back appeared first on Space Daily .
Georgios Kritikos died of decompression sickness during the ten-month salvage of the Antikythera wreck and two of his crewmates were left paralysed, and the site they were dragged off has spent the century since giving up marble heads, human teeth and a skeleton to divers who keep going back
