Posted on 10/23/2018 6:15:56 AM PDT by C19fan
Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the world’s oldest intact shipwreck at the bottom of the Black Sea where it appears to have lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years.
The 23-metre (75ft) vessel, thought to be ancient Greek, was discovered with its mast, rudders and rowing benches all present and correct just over a mile below the surface. A lack of oxygen at that depth preserved it, the researchers said.
“A ship surviving intact from the classical world, lying in over 2km of water, is something I would never have believed possible,” said Professor Jon Adams, the principal investigator with the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project (MAP), the team that made the find. “This will change our understanding of shipbuilding and seafaring in the ancient world.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
So we can deduct from the locale that the sailors on that boat likely died from lack of oxygen.
Video at site shows divers...2km down.
They died from Dihydrogen Oxide poisoning...........
I can’t wait until they find a 15,000 year old skin boat completely preserved. They’re down there, probably containing blades, blade cores, burins, scrapers, atlatls, foreshafts, pendants, banner stones, human and faunal remains, etc. This is an exciting time in science.
PinGGG!........................
Not old enough to be teh Argo
I didn’t realize they could dive that deep. I wonder how long and involved is the decompression process.
Umm, something screwy here. Max recorded scuba dive is around 335 meters.
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-deep-can-you-scuba-dive-2963210
Yeah - no it doesn’t.
I’m not sure what they are showing in that video, but it is not divers 2km down. The deepest dive ever (with equipment like they show in that video) is something like 332m (0.3km).
Even in atmospheric suits, the deepest anyone has gone is 610m
They can’t dive that deep.
I think it was di-hydrogen monoxide.
That stuff’ll kill ya!............
Then who took the picture?.................
Probably another ROV. Or aliens.
Not saying it was aliens... but it was aliens.
Actually, if you go the Guardian site, it shows divers with tanks paddling around a shipwreck—obviously not the wreck 2 miles down.
The masterful reporters are conflating two different wrecks. One is a mile deep, with an ROV in the photo, and the other is probably stock footage, of divers around an unrelated, shallow wreck.
How cool is this?
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