Priceless WWII cipher machine found in Baltic Sea

German divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during World War II.

They think the historic find was thrown overboard from a scuttled submarine – and the divers initially thought they had found just a typewriter entangled in a net on the seabed of Gelting Bay.

But underwater archaeologist Florian Huber quickly realised the historical significance of the find.

“I’ve made many exciting and strange…