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  • Divers discover a treasure-trove of history in shipwreck

    07/28/2003 9:59:40 AM PDT · by AlaskaErik · 8 replies · 306+ views
    Anchorage Daily News ^ | July 28, 2003 | SHEILA TOOMEY
    <p>A team of divers has discovered what appears to be the oldest shipwreck ever found in Alaska waters, the remains of a three-masted Russian sailing freighter called the Kadi'ak, which sank off Kodiak Island in March 1860.</p> <p>The searchers, led by Bradley Stevens, a scientist with the National Marine Fisheries Service, located a cannon, an anchor and what they believe to be copper sheeting in an underwater sand channel off Spruce Island, said Steve Lloyd, one of the divers.</p>