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Champagne galore! Shipwreck gives Polish divers something to celebrate

July 29, 2024157 Views

Polish divers have found a 19th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden laden with bottles of champagne, a "very exclusive" cargo they say may have been destined for the tsar of Russia before the vessel sank. Objects found in a 19th-century shipwreck filled with bottles of champagne and mineral water that was discovered at the bottom of the Baltic Sea by a team of Polish divers, are pictured approximately 20 nautical miles off the island of Oland, Sweden, July 12, 2024. Marek Cacaj/Handout via REUTERS They discovered the wreck, which also contains porcelain and bottles of mineral water, around 60 metres (66 yards) below the surface of the Baltic Sea, but say they would need permission from Swedish authorities to bring the cargo to shore. "This ship is almost whole there, it is ...

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Holy Land shipwreck reveals tenacity of ancient traders as empires shifted

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September 23, 2022540 Views

An ancient shipwreck found off the shore of Israel and loaded with cargo from all over the Mediterranean shows that traders from the West still came to port even after the Islamic conquest of the Holy Land, researchers say. A surprise storm? An inexperienced captain? Whatever the reason, the merchant ship made from fir and walnut trees and carrying containers with delights from far-off lands sank in the shallow waters off what is today the Israeli coastal community of Maagan Michael more than 1,200 years ago. It was around the time the largely Christian Byzantine Empire was losing its grip on this area of the eastern Mediterranean region and Islamic rule was extending its reach. FILE PHOTO: A view of the excavation of a 25-metre cargo ship from the 7th or 8th century AD which car...

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Shipwreck from 1960s becomes tourist attraction in Goa

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July 17, 20221093 Views

A ship which sank near the port town of Vasco in South Goa district more than half a century ago is drawing diving enthusiasts from across the country. The SS Rita carrying rail tracks from Gujarat to Goa met its watery grave near the Grande Island sometime in the 1960s. It is believed that the ship capsized after running into the rocks, but no records of the incident are available. The wreckage lies at the bottom of the Zuari river. UK-built 425-foot cargo ship is also popularly known as Suzy’s Wreck. There is a lot of interest among tourists in seeing the shipwreck. It is one of the seven diving sites near the island, said Skandan Warrier, a former Navy man who runs a scuba diving training institute. Lying underwater at the depth of seven to 13-14 metres, the remains of ...

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Researchers reveal secret find of 340-year-old sunken royal warship

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June 10, 2022369 Views

A royal warship that sank off the east coast of Britain more than 300 years ago while carrying a future king was unveiled by researchers on Friday who kept the discovery secret for 15 years to protect the wreck from damage. In 1682, King James II of England, who was the Duke of York at the time, managed to narrowly escape the sinking ship named "The Gloucester" which went down off the coast of eastern England after hitting a sandbank. He became king of England, and King James VII of Scotland three years later. A pulley block is exposed on the seabed underwater from the shipwreck of HMS Gloucester, which sank 340 years ago while carrying King of England, James Stuart, and was discovered off the coast of Norfolk, Britain July 25, 2018. Norfolk Historic Shipwrecks/Handout via REUTERS ...

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Ten years on, Costa Concordia shipwreck still haunts survivors, islanders

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January 13, 2022931 Views

Ester Percossi can still hear the screams, feel the cold and see the terror in people's eyes. She is one of the survivors of the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia, the luxury cruise liner that capsized after hitting rocks just off the coast of the small Italian island of Giglio on Jan. 13, 2012, killing 32 people in one of Europe's worst maritime disasters. Percossi and other survivors have returned to the island to pay tribute to the dead and again thank the islanders who, in the dark and dead of winter, helped 4,200 crew and passengers - more than six times the number of winter residents that night. A general view of a lighthouse early in the morning on a day of the tenth anniversary of the Costa Concordia shipwreck that killed 32 people after it capsized and sank off shore, at ...