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Research sail drone washes up on Victorian beach after being lost for two years
Researchers are overjoyed after an 8-metre-long research sail drone washed up 13,000 kilometres from home after being missing at sea for two years.
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Waratah Bay Marine Rescue was called out to an “unidentified floating object”
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The object was a sail research drone, lost at sea for two years
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An American company was using the drone to measure krill density around Antarctica
The sail drone was sent to sea by a San Francisco company in 2019. It was to sail around Antarctica to measure the concentration of krill in the water.
Now the 450-kilogram drone has washed up on Waratah Bay Surf Beach in eastern Victoria.
Waratah Bay Marine Rescue senior skipper Greg Mouldings said he found the drone at 6am Tuesday.
“One of the rescue-crew…
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