Trafalgar emerge dos siglos después
Updated: 2010-10-31 09:44:15
Pedro Espinosa - El Pais
En la inmensidad del océano Atlántico, un simple botón ha dado la respuesta a una incógnita histórica. El botón 79, procedente de un uniforme francés del siglo XIX, ha permitido localizar, sin riesgo a equivocarse, el punto exacto donde descansan los restos del Fougueux (Fogoso), un navío francés que se hundió con medio millar de soldados tras haber participado en la histórica batalla de Trafalgar...
Update: UK coast guard: Polish teen sailors safe after their ship loses both masts A group of teenage sailors whose ship was drifting at sea after it lost both masts in gale-force winds is safe from harm, coast guards said Friday, and the vessel was to be towed to a British port for repairs. The [...]
This is a great story. Thanks to Irwin Bryan for passing it along. Congratulations to Bonnie Schubert and her 87-year old mother Jo, two highly successful salvage divers. Elderly woman, daughter find incredible ocean treasure After decades of hunting for treasure along Florida’s coasts, a woman and her elderly mother have made the find [...]
I thought this was particularly cool. A cross-section of a dinosaur skull has been found in a marble slab in the Cathedral of Vigevano in Italy. [Thx Catherine!] “The rock contains what appears to be a horizontal section of a dinosaur’s skull. The image looks like a CT scan, and clearly shows the cranium, the [...]
Photo Florida Aquarium
By Stephen Thompson - The Tampa Tribune
Roughly two miles west of Fort De Soto Park, in about 18 feet of water, lies what's left of the USS Narcissus, a Civil War tugboat that exploded after hitting a shoal in 1866, killing all 29 people on board.When the state started surveying the wreck in the 1990s, there wasn't much for divers to see in this particular spot in the Gulf of Mexico – basically only part of the ship's steam engine.But as time passed, the sand surrounding...
Photo Felix Biancamaria
Christophe Cornevin - Le Figaro
Il avait été englouti il y a 1700 ans au large d'Ajaccio. Puis retrouvé et en partie dispersé. De nouvelles pièces émergent enfin. Une enquête marathon, longue d'un quart de siècle, a été nécessaire avant que le fabuleux trésor de Lava ne refasse surface. Englouti il y a 1700 ans dans une petite anse au large d'Ajaccio, il a fait rêver des générations...
Photo Belleair Coins
By Wayne Ayers - bnweekly.com
Prized artifacts recovered from the shipwreck Atocha are on display at the Silver Queen/Belleair Coins on West Bay Drive in Largo.Two silver bars weighing about 70 pounds each are the most recent acquisitions, said Belleair Coins president Art Arbutine. The bars were used to mint Spanish coins, both in the New World and Spain.The Atocha’ discovery in the mid-1980s by famed treasure hunter Mel Fisher was a cause célèbre...
By Tyler Treadway - cpalm.com
Bonnie Schubert couldn’ believe her eyes when, about 1,000 feet off Frederick Douglass Beach near Fort Pierce, she came face to face with a sold gold statue of a bird that had lain under the Atlantic Ocean exactly 295 years and 15 days.“I remember asking myself, ‘Is this real?’rdquo; Schubert recalled Wednesday as the 5.5-inch-tall statue she found Aug. 15 was revealed to the public at her home in the Vero Shores neighborhood of Vero...
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From ominicantoday.com
Hispaniola Ventures, LLC and its funding partner Marine Exploration, Inc. have resumed exploration activities in their contract area off of the north coast of the Dominican Republic. Having suspended operations during the hurricane season, their exploration/salvage vessel R/V Hispaniola is active once again.During the first week of magnetometer surveys, three new shipwreck sites have been discovered and proofing excavations are being performed in...
From ashuatelegraph.com
In 1914, the British navy lost its star performer in the super-dreadnought battleship class when the HMS Audacious was wrecked off the northern coast of Donegal, Ireland. It was, however, when all was said and done, more of a ship-whoopsie than a shipwreck.The HMS Audacious was setting out for training exercises with her fellow members of the 2nd Battle Squadron when she ran up against a naval mine that had been laid by a German ship. The engine room on the port...
An oil boom working on the Perdido River in Alabama has snagged a 19th century anchor. Maritime archaeologists, he said, determined it was a 19th century folding stock anchor that probably predated the Civil War. Because of its size, Wilson said it was probably on a smaller ship, like a schooner. The anchor was turned [...]
By Greg Bryan - Arizona Daily Star
Nils Martin Ödahl set sail aboard the R.M.S Titanic with hopes of traveling to the U.S. to study botany.Ödahl traveled alone and was an avid student of agriculture, having studied the subject before in Sweden and Denmark.On April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. Ödahl perished with the ship. As a male traveling in third class, the 23-year-old had little chance of survival.Ödahl's story is one of many that can be experienced...
From ürriyet Daily News
A press conference will be held Friday to provide information on an upcoming regional meeting designed to help protect underwater cultural heritage in the Mediterranean and Arab region.The 1st Regional Meeting on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, which will be held October 25-27 at the Istanbul Archeology Museum, is organized by UNESCO and with support from Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency.The meeting will be the first regional...