PARIS: An underwater research device worth $200,000 that was missing for two years has been found by a team in the Perth Canyon, 60 kilometres off the Western Australian coast.
The autonomous “ocean glider”, owned by the University of Western Australia (UWA), went missing on an assignment near the canyon two years ago.
A team from UWA, together with researchers from the Western Australian Museum, CSIRO and the Institute of Marine Sciences in Italy, found the device near the end of a 12-day expedition surveying the undersea canyon using a remote operated vehicle (ROV) for the first time.
The ROV was sent several kilometres into the canyon collecting samples for climate change research and streaming live vision.
The glider was found by the ROV 700 metres down on the floor of the canyon near Rottnest Island, on the side of a 100 metre cliff.
Professor Chari Pattiaratchi said they had chosen that side of the canyon in the hope of finding the glider.
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