ABE, Robotic Undersea Explorer

NY Times.com is reporting the loss of ABE robot in an article titled ABE, Pioneering Robotic Undersea Explorer, Is Dead at 16

ABE, a nomadic adventurer that plumbed the world’s oceans on its own, forever changing the way scientists explored the seafloor, was lost at sea March 5 off southern Chile. The autonomous underwater vehicle was about 16 years old and in the off-seasons was stored in Woods Hole, Mass.