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Makes me wonder if there may be newer shipwrecks atop older shipwrecks, and we may miss these older interesting finds because the newer ships atop them are cons
by npunt 3y ago
Makes me wonder if there may be newer shipwrecks atop older shipwrecks, and we may miss these older interesting finds because the newer ships atop them are considered not worth exploring. Extremely unlikely in the vast ocean but I imagine some very high-traffic areas like near black sea ports or common areas like rock formations this may have happened with some regularity.
- ponector 3y agoThere are almost every year accidents with small old bulker ships (dead weight of 3000-5000 tons) in Black sea. I'm sure their remains stay at the bottom for future generations
- Etrnl_President 3y agohttps://www.imcbrokers.com/marine-salvage-companies-around-the-world/ https://www.imcbrokers.com/marine-salvage-companies-around-t...
- biztos 3y agoA list of salvage companies from Jan 2009, and it’s a shorter list than I would have expected, from a brokerage company that clearly doesn’t care much about the list, and it’s relevant because…?
- prawn 3y agoOr because they don't want to disturb the newer ships too much when exploring them and never realise there's something even better underneath.
- yakshaving_jgt 3y agoThere is now rather a lot of detritus on the floor (and surface) of the Black Sea thanks to russian terrorism.
- mschuster91 3y agoThe Black Sea is giant. A couple dozen ships [1] don't really matter pollution-wise. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ship_losses_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ship_losses_during_the...
- Denvercoder9 3y agoI think GP is refering to everything swept away in the wake of the Kakhovka dam collapse.