Elias Stadiatos

Elias Stadiatos was a sponge diver.

Biography
It was while diving off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900 that Stadiatos found the shipwreck where an Ancient Greek mechanism was discovered.

The find would inspire Italy Fascists to go in search of more devices thirty-seven years later which were instrumental in finding a treasure trove looted by the Romans.

Behind the scenes
Indiana Jones Comic 6 credits Elias Stadiatos with finding the Antikythera Mechanism itself in 1900. Athough Stadiatos did indeed find the artifact-filled Roman shipwreck, the discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism as being among the pieces did not come until later following archaeological study.