University of New Hampshire Robot Helped Discover 19th Century Shipwreck Submerged Under Lake Huron

Date
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Source
Boston Globe
Summary

BEN, an autonomous surface vehicle operated by CCOM's ASV Team played a key role in the discovery of the Ironton, a 19th-century shipwreck submerged hundreds of feet in Lake Huron. The discovery, made in 2019, was publicly confirmed after painstaking visual documentation was recently completed.