2400 year old ship discovered intact...

[Sancho]

Last edited Mon Feb 25, 2019, 03:33 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/10/24/oldest-intact-shipwreck/?fbclid=IwAR3inbnRac9pnqIBDaZxhaGO6QbAxwbsSnyWBxB0sBAYPV0miAv1P2BP390

Off the coast of Bulgaria, more than a mile beneath the surface of the Black Sea, a team of maritime archaeologists, scientists and surveyors has discovered what could be the world’s oldest intact shipwreck – a 75-foot-long Greek trading vessel carbon-dated to more than 2,400 years ago.

The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology project says it found the wreck in oxygen-free conditions that preserved its components. Its design has previously been seen only on the side of ancient Greek pottery.

The ship was found lying whole with its mast, rudders, and rowing in a “shipwreck graveyard’ that has already revealed over 60 other vessels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=73&v=Vap076Uw3y8

[magicarpet]

1. Nice,.. love this info.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Centuries of Preserved Shipwrecks Found in the Black Sea (NatGeo)

Centuries of Preserved Shipwrecks Found in the Black Sea

(full documentary)

The lower depths of the heavily stratified Black Sea are rich in toxic hydrogen sulfide, which has the effect of inhibiting decay and leaving shipwrecks amazingly intact. Amazing finds.

[padah513]

3. Great post

Thanks

[DallasNE]

4. How Can H2O Be Oxygen Free

Part of why science is so fascinating.

[ret5hd]

8. "Dissolved oxygen" free

http://www.mymobilebay.com/stationdata/whatisDO.htm

Dissolved Oxygen is the amount of gaseous oxygen (O2) dissolved in the water. Oxygen enters the water by direct absorption from the atmosphere, by rapid movement, or as a waste product of plant photosynthesis. Water temperature and the volume of moving water can affect dissolved oxygen levels.

[MontanaMama]

5. Fascinating!

Thank you for this!

[Bayard]

6. Amazing

It seems the Black Sea has its own version of a Bermuda Triangle.

[paleotn]

7. Wow!

From the days of Aristotle and just before Alexander. The neat thing is, no one has laid eyes on it since....until now.

[edhopper]

9. This is old news!

really old, a couple of millennia.

Very cool, thanks for posting.

[StarryNite]

10. Really Cool!

Thanks for sharing!

[calimary]

11. Now THIS qualifies as "fascinating."

NOT those moments for which so many newsfolk tend to over-use it: the crowds of goons at trump rallies, the behavior of the worst of them, how they’re stirred up, what makes a trump-nut a trump-nut, ad nauseas.

NO. NONE of that is “fascinating.”

Better descriptive words would be:
Horrifying
Disgusting
Disgraceful
Hideous
Shameful
Pathetic
Horrendous
Nauseating
Monstrous
Deplorable
Unamerican
Unchristian
Traitorous
and Fucked, Crappy, and Shitty.