Great find, pretty awesome. Only one problem. It belongs to the British and the US discoverers won't raise it.
Well, I think they're handling it properly and treating it like a gravesite and not removing artifacts and all the other things people commonly do nowadays, very honorable. Just amazing that it survived intact going down in a storm and at a depth of 500 ft!!!
There are lot of ships that have been sunk in the Great Lakes .Those Lake storms can come up quickly and without much warning and and the waves can be huge and more closely spaced than in the ocean. Still its a amazing find.Very well preserved it seems .It can claim to be the oldest ship in the bottom of the lakes .
I always wanted to be a pirate. We need to buy it and raise it, then go around with shore raiding parties and shooting cannons at passing ships.
i love this stuff....i just watched a documentary this past weekend about sunken ships in the Black Sea....used to belong to Russia so we were never able to navigate it to search but since the walls fell we have been researching and found several 16th century ships that sunk whilest trying to navigate trade routes.....its awesome!
Great find. I am pleased that they declined to salvage or disclose the location. My Great Great Grandfather was serving on a grain bark as first mate. It was the winter of '56.. 1856 that is, and they were making a run from Milwaukee to Chicago and got caught in a blizzard. The storm pushed them ashore at Waukeegan Illinios wrecking the vessel, but sparing everyones life. The townspeople took the shipwrecked sailors into their homes, Grandpa thanked his hosts by marrying their daughter.
Cool, I recall the finding of some of the British Ships that were sunk in Lake Champlain during the Revolutionary War, it was in incredible condition..
