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...Canadian Armed Forces Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Maj. Bill Whitehead told The Associated Press that the rescue operation began when a Canadian fishing vessel, the Atlantic Reaper, radioed yesterday afternoon that it had spotted two large lifeboats...
...information about people's lives in this area in 1400 B.C., what goods they traded and where these goods were coming from." The discovery of glass ingots, for example, established conclusively that artisans were blowing glass in that region far earlier than had previously been thought. The ancient vessel itself has been a rich source of information. Says Bass: "It extends our knowledge of ship technology back a thousand years...
Fortune Hunter Mel Fisher might argue about that appraisal. Some 30 miles out from Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, his four salvage tugs lay at anchor last week 60 ft. above the remains of the Spanish galleon Atocha. The square-rigged vessel sank in a hurricane in 1622, carrying 260 crew members and passengers, and a priceless cargo, to the bottom. From the tugs, divers employed by Fisher's Treasure Salvors, Inc., have brought to the surface a fortune in emeralds, gold and silver bars, coins, bags of gold dust and lengths of golden chains...
...National Geographic published an article titled "Fish Men Discover a 2,200-year-old Greek Ship." The author was a Frenchman named Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who in 1943 had helped to invent the Aqualung--the precursor of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba)--and used it to excavate a vessel at the bottom of the Mediterranean near the island of Grand Congloue. "That opened the door to underwater exploration for the modern day," says Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, the venerable publication of the National Geographic Society, which has since financed many undersea missions by Cousteau and others...
...massive rear section, about one-third of the 882-foot ship, had been photographed by a remote-controlled camera towed by a surface vessel during last year's expedition. But questions remained about how it had been wrenched off when the Titanic struck an iceberg...