Posted on 07/30/2004 9:51:00 AM PDT by blam
Divers find sunken treasure -- of the historical kind
OLDEST SHIPWRECK: The Kad'yak went down in 1860 off Kodiak with a load of ice.
By DOUG O'HARRA
Anchorage Daily News
(Published: July 29, 2004)
Graduate students Evguenia Anichtchenko and husband Jason Rogers are among the researchers studying the Russian America Co. bark Kad'yak, which legend says was sunk by an Alaska saint. (Photo by Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News)
Brad Stevens, left, and Jason Rogers document the hull structural remains of the Kad'yak. The ship went down in 1860 while hauling a load of ice. (Photo by TANE CASSERLEY / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
A cannon from the Kad'yak is shown with a 3-foot measuring stick and lines guiding the way to nearby features at the shipwreck site. (Photo by TANE CASSERLEY / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration )
Underwater archaeologists and local volunteers this month verified the identity of the oldest shipwreck ever found in Alaska waters -- the legendary Russian-American Co. ice freighter Kad'yak.
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When a local doctor in Apalachacola, Florida served his dinner guests drinks with ice, no-one believed him when he told them that he made the ice himself...however, everyone also knew that an ice ship hadn't arrived. The doctor had invented refigeration.
Ping.
There is not much ice in the Interior of Alaska this time of year. You would have to head south toward Anchorage and Valdez to find glaciers coming off the mountains, and some end up breaking off directly into the sea.
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