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Ancient Black Sea shipwrecks found in the Black Sea date to antiquity. In 1976, Willard Bascom suggested that the deep, anoxic waters of the Black Sea might have preserved ships from antiquity since typical wood-devouring organisms could not survive there. At a depth of 150m, the Black Sea contains insufficient oxygen to support most familiar ...
Sinop D is an ancient Black Sea shipwreck located to the east of Sinop, Turkey. The ship was discovered by a team led by Robert Ballard with Dan Davis in 2000. The team discovered the well-preserved wreck at a 320 m depth, in the Black Sea's deep anoxic waters. The vessel's entire hull and cargo are intact, buried in sediments.
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
Maritime archaeologists from a Black Sea research expedition said on October 23 the 2,400-year-old skeleton of a Greek trading vessel they discovered in the eastern European body of water was the ...
The wreck is also claimed by U.S.-based salvage company Sea Search Armada -- which insists it found it first more than 40 years ago and has taken Colombia to the UN's Permanent Court of ...
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Found in the Mediterranean on the Eratosthenes Seamount, by the Ocean Exploration Trust's vessel EV Nautilus. [6] Kyrenia ship – 4th century BC. Porticello wreck – 400 BC. [5] A Greek merchant ship with rudder, rowing benches and the contents of the hold still intact was found in the Black Sea, off the coast of Bulgaria. – more than 2,400 ...
The Phoenician shipwrecks of Mazarrón are two wrecks dated to the 7th century BC, found off the coast of Mazarrón, in the Region of Murcia, Spain.The shipwreck site was identified in 1988 by archaeologists from the Spanish National Museum of Maritime Archaeology and the National Center for Underwater Archaeological Research.