Posted on 02/16/2016 7:22:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Dunwich is the iconic lost city -- in the early Middle Ages this town was one of the largest in England, and its outer walls stood nearly two miles beyond the present shoreline. Since then coastal erosion, and particularly several huge storms in the late 1200s and early 1300s, have almost entirely destroyed the town. Only the old Greyfriars Priory and a solitary gravestone survive of the old town...
The project also found a new shipwreck off the coast of Dunwich. Dive team leader, Professor David Sear from Southampton University, reports from the Underwater Dunwich dive on the site's newly revealed secrets:
"The work at Dunwich, also known as 'Britain's Atlantis', has a number of aims, one of which is to dive on new sites revealed by a previous large scale mapping project back in 2011. The new survey involved sending a diver down with a DIDSON sonar -- a novel system that uses sound instead of light to 'illuminate' objects rather like a torch and means objects can be identified even in muddy water.
We dived the first site -- located north of Dunwich and close inshore. The site proved to be a shipwreck. The diver could see the ribs of a wooden vessel, with piles of stone ballast lying in between each rib and in a pile on the landward side. Feeling around one of the ribs, the diver found it covered by a thin sheet of copper. Copper sheathing was put on the bottom of ships hulls after 1750AD so we knew we had a wreck from the last 250 years..."
(Excerpt) Read more at touchingthetide.org.uk ...
I was gonna submit that - good thing I looked and saw you did it first.
OMG — must be because of human carbon levels! Oh, wait a minute...
Nothing that bad. A mere monster.
Uh, all SONAR uses sound...Sound Navigation And Ranging. Duh.
SO TRUE. How wonderful for you both.
I'm also very glad that it hasn't changed. The Turks allow it to remain unchanged.
I don't often hear good things about the Turks but this sure is one.
They ARE amazing!
"The new survey involved sending a diver down with a DIDSON sonar -- a novel system that uses sound instead of light to 'illuminate' objects rather like a torch and means objects can be identified even in muddy water. "
DIDSON sonar — a novel system — it’s not your father’s sonar.
All sonar is not DIDSON sonar.
No, but *ALL* SONAR is sound, not light. The author makes it sound (no pun intended) like other SONAR systems use light. Get it now? The wording of that sentence is unfortunate, to say the least.
It appears that the Deep Ones have finally taken all of Dunwich to Y’ha-nthlei.
The coastline of this 1886 map is not the coastline of today by a long shot.
That usually appears in the form, “why don’t journalists learn how to write?”.
Sounds pretty cool. 😎
Makes sense that a city would be on the shores when the sea was the major method of transport. Surprised more “cities” weren’t eroded away.
There was a town called Newton which was entirely swept away, I think that was in the Wiki-wacky page.
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