Ghost fleet: Explorers accidentally find a graveyard of more than 40 perfectly preserved ancient sh

Full title.......Ghost fleet: Explorers accidentally find a graveyard of more than 40 perfectly preserved ancient shipwrecks at the bottom of the Black Sea............................ The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project has been scouring the sea bed of the Black Sea The primary focus is to carry out geophysical surveys, but over 40 shipwrecks have also been found They are 'astonishingly well preserved' due to the lack of oxygen in the Black Sea's 'dead zone' The findings provide new information on the communities living on the Black Sea coast

Interesting description in the comment section of the video (sorry for the formatting):

"ive had the honor of diving kamloops, what an adventure and thanks for the upload this footage is incredible...lots of lore surrounds this wreck.....shes on her starboard side and is 200 ft down.....tec dive for me and it was soooo cold and scary......saw two bodies during my dive to her stern and there are more trapped in the bow end..one is in the engine room and one is one of the 2 women stewardess lost at sea(the other womans body was found w a few other sailors frozen marooned on an tiny little island not far from the sinking months later)...there is a memorial headstone ive seen pictures of commemorated to the crew on the island....whiteys body is in this video thats the white mass at 2:00 you see in the engine room tangled in the catwalk...gives me chills seeing this footage.....my instructor said the body is like soap and if you look close his wedding ring is still on his hand but i kept my distance...his desk chair is floating behind him up on the upper level of the engine room...lot of treasure divers have been down there messing with him and some of the wreckage has literaly been chained down by the nps to keep people from stealing souveniers....when you first descend the line attached to her stern you are right near the engine room and its the easiest place to enter the wreckage....so ya see him right away and get the tragic impact.....it is a gravesite afterall however a time capsule to be explored.....cool footage of the lifesavers.....tons of em down there....candys disolved but the rolls are still intact as they were in 1927......florshiem shoes,wheelbarrows,chicken fence and disc brake are all down there still in the cargo holds....so enlightening thanks again"

Video of the wreck. You can see Whitey's legs in the engine room part:

Reminds me of a 1930s salvage book, where old timers told of the "dead man walking" on a recent shipwreck.

Evidently it sank in fairly shallow waters and a hard hat diver was sent down. About 15 minutes later he's yelling "get me up! Get me up!". The crew thought it was an equipment failure and brought the guy up. He damned near crawled out of the suit, wide-eyed in terror.

When he calmed down, he said he was below decks, exploring a passageway when he saw a guy slooowly coming towards him. That's when he decided to get out. He refused to go down again.

They got another guy to go down and he reported that it was the body of a crew member. When they got the body topside, they discovered it was the skipper, who had a belt containing gold coins. As the body gasses built up, at that particular point, it was just enough weight to give the bloated corpse an upright position, that gently swayed in the current.

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