Security News > 2020 > December > German divers find Enigma crypto machine on seabed

Environmental group WWF operates a tragically necessary maritime cleanup operation to find and remove so-called "Ghost nets" from the sea.

A ghost net is any rogue fishing device that has got loose and carries on snagging sea creatures, including fish, sea mammals such as whales and dolphins, and even birds, in an uncontrollable way.

Such as a recently-recovered rogue net in Gelting Bay, which opens into Flensburg Fjord in the Baltic Sea, between Germany and Denmark.

According to lead diver Florian Huber, one of his colleagues surfaced from a dive and reported "An old typewriter" in a net they were working on, which immediately suggested a naval cipher machine.

That's because the Nazis ordered the German Navy to scuttle its submarines immediately before surrendering to the Allies at the end of the war, and nearly 50 submarines were in Gelting Bay, a well-sheltered natural harbour, at the time.

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