Baltic yields 'perfect' shipwreck

BBC ^ | 15 Nov 2007 | BBC

[mysterio]

Wow. That is amazing.

[Larry Lucido]

Way cool!

Not sure the crew agrees with you. :-)

[Malacoda]

Bloody Hell. WHy would you wish THAT discovery on future generations?

Imagine Thighzilla emerging from cold-water stasis! It would rival Godzilla rising from the depths -- lumpy, barnacle-encrusted and seaweed-festooned.

[FastCoyote]

“Think of WW1 airplanes. As primitive as they seem now, they were the best in the world at the time, and were extremely dangerous to fly, just because the technology was new and untried.”

Actually you are only half correct. They were in part dangerous to fly because the fighters were trying for maximum maneuverability (close to the unstable regime), something we handle now with fly-by-wire.

[VOA]

bump

[ozzymandus]

Sorry I didn’t measure up to your standards. Whatever.

[wildbill]

“you could hardly call it a shipwreck.”

No kidding. It gives me goosebumps. It looks like someone sailed it gently into the sand. I keep getting an image of an old Norseman sailing her into the deeps, calling “Odin, Odin” as she sank beneath the waves.

Thanks for finding and posting this.

[Trajan88]

neat-o bandee-do... thanks for posting.

[SunkenCiv]

I agree!

Apropos to this story, a reprise -- the late Willard Bascom was a mentor / idol of Robert Ballard. I saw this book at the library the other day, along with a couple of others (of course), and grabbed it. As I read the prologue I realized who this guy was -- the prologue was quoted in a story about Ballard's finding of a Byzantine vessel in the anoxic (?) depths of the Black Sea:

It sits upright on the bottom, lightly covered by the sea dust of 2,500 years," he wrote. "The wave-smashed deckhouse and splintered bulwarks tell of the violence of its last struggle with the sea. A stub of a mast still remains."

Deep Water, Ancient Ships: The Treasure Vault of the Mediterranean by Willard Bascom

[SunkenCiv]

;’D

“Mr Manders said the boat was likely to have been a trading vessel, 20-25m long, with two or perhaps three masts.”

20 to 25 meters long — that would be one big-a’ed prop though. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]