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Underwater archaeologist Florian Huber with his find
Photo: Christian Howe / submaris
As an archaeologist, Florian Huber is in the truest sense of the word with all waters.
He searched for ancient Mayan antiquities in the flooded caves of the Yucatán, and dived to the bottom of fjords and deep alpine lakes.
Again and again, however, the Kiel underwater researcher was drawn to the bottom of the Baltic Sea, where he tracked down wrecks or examined flora and fauna together with biologists.
It was here, of all places, that the well-traveled researcher made his most exciting discovery.
Huber was actually working with two colleagues in the Geltinger Bucht, not far from Flensburg, in the service of environmental protection.
The divers looked for ghost nets, abandoned fishing nets that become deadly traps for marine animals at the bottom.
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From on board the “Mola Mola”, a nearly eight-meter-long motor catamaran, the researchers systematically scanned the sea floor with sonar.
If the system detects a disused network or another object on the ground, the tracking device receives conspicuous sound impulses.
The divers then slip into their suits, strap on their compressed air cylinders and drop backwards from the ship's railing into the cold water to check.
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