[blam]

GGG Ping.

[ops33]

We're there really no survivors of the Lusitania?

[xJones]

15,000 Wrecks Lie Buried On Irish Seabed

Faith and begorrah, the damned Brits never stop!

[Tax-chick]

ping

[operation clinton cleanup]

The Irish Triangle?

[jmq]

There is this Irish Bar called O'Dowd's in Kansas City. When ever I go there I always get wreaked.......

[TheLion]

Wow, you could really treasure hunt around there.

[razorback-bert]

[1rudeboy]

Did they find Pierce Brosnan's acting career?

[TinkersDam]

Lusitania was left to fend for herself despite a Uboat being known to be in the area despite the British having escorted a ship carrying mules a week earlier. Britain wanted the US in the war. The ship was indeed carrying munitions though the ammunition was actually military ordnance the paperwork described it as 'sport ammunition-not likely to explode in bulk'.

Wrecks around irregular coasts with storms and tides are not uncommon. The USA had its share of Moon Cursers and the coasts of England and Ireland had many who displayed false lights so as to lure ships to their doom and loot them. English law made the Registrar of Wrecks the owner of a ship's cargo if 'any man or beast' survived, so villagers often made sure that sailors did not survive. Often local constabulary sided with those whose living 'came from the sea'. It is only fairly recent in history that we've come to view "harvesting the sea's bounty" to be limited to fish and not to include ships cargoes.

Everyone associates the Irish with potatoes perhaps, but the Irish were great seafarers, ate mutton and used slaves to tend their sheep.

[NonValueAdded]

history bump

[Balding_Eagle]

the seas surrounding Ireland are littered with evidence of thousands of other maritime tragedies, with as many as 15,000 wrecks resting on the seabed.

Amazing. That could mean there are how many hundreds of thousands worldwide?

Imagine the treasure trove of historical information and precious commodities!

[PAR35]

drowning all 1,200 on board,

The Times has fallen far, if they have this litte regard for accuracy. Over 700 folks (one source says 761) were saved.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

There are thousands more wrecks from ancient times that will never make it on to the inventory.

I'll go out on a limb right now and say some Roman-era craft of the Britons/Irish are down there. :')

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[RightWhale]

Of all the ships ever built, most have sunk.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Boats sink.

The time between launch and landing on the sea floor is purely borrowed time.

Takes balls to go on the ocean in a wooden(fiberglass/steel/concrete) coffin.

[Dustbunny]

Wow, that is a lot of ship wrecks. Hopefully they will find artifacts that go way back.