Hailed as one of the top archaeological finds of 2015, the discovery added 12 percent to the total of known ancient shipwrecks in Greek territorial waters in just 10 diving days. 17th-Century Caribbean Shipwreck Explored: Photos V. Mentogianis
1 posted on
10/29/2015 3:22:11 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
That’s where the sirens were. VERY distracting...
3 posted on
10/29/2015 3:27:31 PM PDT by
Jim W N
To: SunkenCiv
4 posted on
10/29/2015 3:30:32 PM PDT by
petercooper
(And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
To: SunkenCiv
This reminds me of the old Hitchcock movie, Jamaica Inn, where the lighthouse was turned off with a decoy light in another spot to cause shipwrecks.
5 posted on
10/29/2015 3:31:25 PM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: SunkenCiv
Jeb’s campaign may be down there as well.
6 posted on
10/29/2015 3:31:47 PM PDT by
The Iceman Cometh
(Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
To: SunkenCiv
The bottom must be littered with Freeper firearms.
(Someone was going to say it eventually)
8 posted on
10/29/2015 3:36:38 PM PDT by
CrazyIvan
(Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
To: SunkenCiv
“The Sea Remembers” “Throck” would appreciate this!
9 posted on
10/29/2015 3:42:56 PM PDT by
WellyP
(question!)
To: SunkenCiv
I came in for coffee and saw the post, thank you. I went on Google Earth, to see where these islands were and noticed that there is no bridge across the Dardanelles Strait. At the narrowest, it's only a mile across! Without a bridge, it's a 250 miles by rail through Istanbul or it's a very expensive ferry or barge operation to get to the opposite bank.
Are they crazy?
10 posted on
10/29/2015 3:48:33 PM PDT by
Carry_Okie
(Dupes for Donald, Chumps for Trump)
To: SunkenCiv
Thats seriously impressive.
Just as a side thought: Think about how many things down with Davey Jones the USN has mapped fully over the years but remain classified because of unrelated issues (mission they were on/Depth/area etc.
11 posted on
10/29/2015 3:50:22 PM PDT by
Norm Lenhart
(Embrace "Existential Cage Theory")
To: SunkenCiv
“Fourni is the safest place that ships could stop in the area,”
With twenty two ship wrecks it does not sound like the safest. But then maybe that is 22 shipwrecks in 3000 years.
To: SunkenCiv; All
The
Fourni archipelago, [Click on map for full size image...]
is right in the passage between between the Greek islands of Samos and Ikaria (a great place to cause shipwrecks), and, is in a very historic region:
Fourni is just 20 miles north of the island of Patmos , where John, the Disciple was exiled when he wrote the book of Revelation.
And, Samos, of course, was the home of Pythagoras of Samos -- of right triangle hypotenuse fame...
15 posted on
10/29/2015 5:14:28 PM PDT by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias. "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
To: SunkenCiv
Huh. I wonder if there was a local economy based on insurance scams.
16 posted on
10/29/2015 5:23:01 PM PDT by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: SunkenCiv
Just from taking a close look on
Google Earth at the
Fournoi Archipelago, (with all its points, rocks, reefs, shallows, narrow passages, and extremely jagged shoreline) I'd be awfully surprised if, in only ten days, that expedition found a
quarter of the wrecks that are there.
Just envision the currents roaring through the pass between Ikaria and Samos -- and imagine the challenge of trying to miss all those Fournoi obstacles with a primitive sailing / rowed vessel!
17 posted on
10/29/2015 5:31:55 PM PDT by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias. "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
To: SunkenCiv
Did they find the Greek economy down there too?
To: SunkenCiv
Right down the drain.
20 posted on
10/29/2015 6:52:43 PM PDT by
TChad
To: SunkenCiv
22 posted on
10/29/2015 7:07:00 PM PDT by
Daffynition
(*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
To: SunkenCiv
38 posted on
10/30/2015 4:41:14 AM PDT by
4yearlurker
(Voting is now the lesser of all evils.)
To: SunkenCiv
40 posted on
10/30/2015 7:39:48 AM PDT by
curmudgeonII
(Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit.)
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