Well, they're free to take the oil companies word for it being clear, or go down there themselves...This sounds suspiciously like just another way to hamstring the petrochemical industry: “We don’t care if there are 10B barrels of oil down there, that plank might be a Viking ship! Buyanelectriccarbuyanelectriccar…“
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All Archaeologists have beards. Same as Philosophers and Dwarves.
Some are invisible though.
Your maths is worse than mine Ramon.Lake Huron wreck found after 1390 years.
Searchers have found a long-lost Great Lakes ship that came to a tragic end.
Officials with the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan, say they have located the Ironton, a freight schooner that plunged to the bottom of Lake Huron in 1894.
The 191-foot (58-metre) cargo vessel collided with a grain hauler on a blustery night in September 1894, sinking both.
The Ironton’s captain and six sailors clambered into a lifeboat but it was dragged to the bottom before they could detach it from the ship. Only two crewmen survived.
A lifeboat is tethered to the Ironton in Lake Huron off Michigan’s east coast (Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary via AP/PA)![]()
The gravesite long eluded shipwreck hunters.
Now, the mystery has been solved, officials with Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan, said on Wednesday.
A team of historians, underwater archaeologists and technicians located the wreckage in 2019 and deployed remotely controlled cameras to scan and document it, Superintendent Jeff Gray told AP.
The sanctuary plans to reveal the location in coming months and is considering placing a mooring buoy at the site. Officials have kept the find secret to prevent divers from disturbing the site before video and photo documentation is finished.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41082802.html
Jacob Mackenzie, one of the divers who visited the wreck, said it was "eerie" being down there given that the some of the crew had perished along with their vessel.
"You are aware of that, although I believe about 15 of the crew did escape the rest of the crew of course didn't so they are still inside and that's very obvious when you're looking around it," he said.
The team were able to confirm the identity of the wreck because details of the damage had been recorded in the logbooks of the Royal Navy destroyers that sank the submarine.
"It certainly didn't sink by accident. This was wartime and if you haven't been to those depths before you won't appreciate that it's pitch black, it's very quiet, it is quite eerie when you swim around doing this," he said.
"In the back of your mind as well you have to remember the fact that this is essentially a grave for probably 20 men who didn't make it out alive unfortunately."
???Denarii found on uninhabited Swedish island.
Mystery of Roman coins discovered on shipwreck island has archaeologists baffled
Two silver coins minted in during the Roman Empire have been found on a remote and uninhabited island in the Baltic Sea. Archaeologists have no idea how they got there.
Johan Rönnby(opens in new tab), an archaeologist at Södertörn University in Stockholm, was part of the team that found the coins with metal detectors in March, at a beach site marked by old fireplaces on the island of Gotska Sandön.
Lots of tourists camping overnight????
The coins are of interest but for me the real question is why is the site marked by old fireplaces?
Maybe? There again the article states 'old fireplaces'.Lots of tourists camping overnight?
…why is the site marked by old fireplaces?
Could it be possible that they were brought to the island in much later years by someone who collected ancient coins simply as a pastime?.Denarii found on uninhabited Swedish island.
Mystery of Roman coins discovered on shipwreck island has archaeologists baffled
Two silver coins minted in during the Roman Empire have been found on a remote and uninhabited island in the Baltic Sea. Archaeologists have no idea how they got there.
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The coin on the left is a silver denarius minted in the reign of Antonius Pius, from A.D. 138 to 161. The emperor's head and some Latin characters can just be seen.The coin on the right is a silver denarius minted in the reign of Trajan, from A.D. 98 to 117. It shows the emperor's head and part of a Latin inscription. (Image credit: Johan Rönnby)
Archaeologists are baffled but excited by the discovery of two silver coins from the Roman Empire on a remote island in the Baltic Sea, halfway between Sweden and Estonia.
No clues reveal how the coins got there, but they may have been left by Norse traders, lost in a shipwreck or brought there on a Roman ship that voyaged to the far north.
Johan Rönnby(opens in new tab), an archaeologist at Södertörn University in Stockholm, was part of the team that found the coins with metal detectors in March, at a beach site marked by old fireplaces on the island of Gotska Sandön.
"We were so happy," he told Live Science. "We have this site, but we don't know what it is. But now that we have the coins there, it makes it even more interesting to continue to excavate it."
The two silver coins found on the island are both Roman "denarii" — one from the reign of the emperor Trajan, between A.D. 98 and 117, and the other from the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius, between A.D. 138 and 161. They each weigh less than an eighth of an ounce (4 grams) and would have represented about a day's pay for a laborer when they were minted.
Denarii were the standard coin of ancient Rome, and their name survives today in the word for "money" in several Latin-based languages, such as "denaro" in Italian and "dinero" in Spanish.
Rönnby said coins from the Roman Empire could have stayed in circulation for a long time, because the silver they contained always remained valuable; and they might have been brought to Gotska Sandön by Norse traders who had taken shelter there from storms at sea.
But it's also possible they were carried there by survivors from a shipwreck: The waters around the island are notoriously dangerous, and the area is littered with wrecks, he said.
Another possibility is that the coins were taken to Gotska Sandön by Romans on a Roman ship, though no records of such a voyage into the Baltic exist. ...
https://www.livescience.com/archaeo...n-shipwreck-island-has-archaeologists-baffled
The diver spotted some “metal remains” in shallow water near the town of Arzachena, the ministry said in a statement Saturday. These turned out to be “follis”—Roman bronze or copper coins also later used as Byzantine currency.
All the coins retrieved are in a “rare state of preservation,” with only four damaged yet still legible. According to the statement, the coins date from 324 to 340 CE and were produced by mints across the Roman empire.
Shackleton's Endurance found 3km down in the Weddell Sea:
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60662541
Energy company finds earliest deep-sea shipwreck in the world, and it's Canaanite
An energy company surveying the Mediterranean seafloor has discovered the earliest shipwreck ever found in the deep sea anywhere in the world: a Canaanite merchant vessel that sank 3,400 to 3,300 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed on Thursday. Moreover, it designed and sent down a specially kitted robot to retrieve samples.
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The wreck was found a year ago at a depth of almost two kilometers (1.2 miles), 90 kilometers (55 miles) off the Israeli coast, in the middle of the sea – which was startling in and of itself. Either it was very lost or the ancients had navigational skills we weren't aware of, the IAA team says.
While the seafloors of the world are littered with shipwrecks, this is the earliest found in the deep sea from that time. In fact, until now we hadn't been confident the ancients around the Mediterranean intentionally crossed the sea at all, as opposed to sailing along the coasts.
Based on the way its cargo with hundreds of pottery jars remained in position more than three millennia, the prehistoric ship apparently foundered quite suddenly.
To be clear, it isn't the ship that Energean found, it's the cargo: hundreds of jars. Wooden beams may still lie below them, but any that had been above the sand are long gone. The jars lay in a heap about six meters by ten, not scattering at all.
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"The cargo had been closed in a chamber in the ship," Sharvit speculates. If the ship had capsized, the pots would have fallen out, but we see it didn't. They were still lying like in their chambers in the ship. The sonar showed the lines separating them – we even thought we had the ribs of the ship."
What had been in the jars? We may never know because they didn't scatter, but their contents are apparently gone and replaced by sediment. Probably eaten by sea creatures. But they hope to detect traces of foodstuffs or pollen or anything that could help nail down the nature of the goods – wine, olive oil, dried figs or other fruits.
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology...anaanite/00000190-30c6-d39e-a999-76ce580f0000
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The wreck was found a year ago at a depth of almost two kilometers (1.2 miles), 90 kilometers (55 miles) off the Israeli coast, in the middle of the sea – which was startling in and of itself. Either it was very lost or the ancients had navigational skills we weren't aware of, the IAA team says.