This year, Australian-made autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), Hydrus, went on a mission to the Indian Ocean’s Rottnest ship graveyard. The purpose of the mission was to share data shared with the Western Australian Museum for its public archives and with Curtin University HIVE (Hub for Immersive Visualisation and eResearch). HIVE will be able to rebuild a high-resolution replica of the wreck.
The wreck was identified as an iron coal hulk used in Freemantle Port to service steamships, probably built in the 1860s–1890s and scuttled in the graveyard sometime in the 1920s.
Full article at: ARS Technica 03apr24