Divers just found this World War II Enigma machine dumped on the seabed

Underwater archeologists sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have found an Enigma machine at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, likely from a submarine that Germany scuttled at the end of World War II. The divers made the discovery while searching the sea bed using a sonar device for abandoned fishing nets that can be harmful for sea life. Enigma machines, created in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, were used to encode military messages; these codes were finally broken by the experts assembled by the British at Bletchley Park, work which fueled the creation of modern computers. Earlier this year, a four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine sold at an auction for £347,250 ($437,955). It, however, was in pristine condition while the rusty, barnacle-covered one found in the Baltic Sea has been deformed by decades spent in salt water.