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  • Robots To Clear Baltic Seabed Of WWII Mines

    02/17/2010 11:34:48 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 9 replies · 612+ views
    Popular Science ^ | 2/17/2010 | Stuart Fox
    In a dangerous legacy of the world's deadliest conflict, 150,000 World War Two-era sea mines litter the Baltic Sea. The danger these bombs pose to a proposed gas pipeline has prompted Russia to hire the British firm Bactec International to clear the sea of unexploded ordnance. And for Bactec, that means it's time to bring out the robots. Bactec, which previously worked clearing mines from around the Falkland Islands, will use a specially designed robot to scour the ocean floor in search of the 70 bombs blocking the path of the pipeline. When the robot finds a mine, a surface...