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May 6th, 2008 | Author: Kapt Kaos
As a want to be sea captain I always find old shipwreck stories fun. Here is a really fascinating one that was found while stripping the ocean floor looking for diamonds. The wreck is estimated to be 500 years old.
From the Discovery News web site
The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins — and cannons to fend off pirates.
Da Beers had cleared and drained a stretch of seabed, building an earthen wall to keep the water out so geologists could work. One of the geologists saw a few ingots, but had no idea what they were. Then the team found what looked like cannon barrels.
The geologists stopped the brutal earth-moving work of searching for diamonds and sent photos.
In later years, sailors with sophisticated navigational tools avoided [this section of the African coast]. The only tools found on the wreck were [ Mariner's ] astrolabes, which can be used to determine only how far north or south you have sailed.
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