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A 2005 BBC documentary, Coast, successfully replicated the conditions of false light wrecking in an experiment which suggested that a single-candle lantern onshore would be insufficient to lure a boat into dangerous water on a dark night. The boat crew did not see the light until they got within 150m of it. [28]
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
Four years after the disaster, a new rule required sailing vessels to carry running lights. The Lady Elgin disaster remains the greatest loss of life on open water in the history of the Great Lakes. [3] In 1994, a process began to list the shipwreck on the National Register of Historic Places. After it was determined to be eligible for listing ...
Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C.
A team of divers has discovered a 19th century stash of champagne and wine on a shipwreck at the ... and baskets of mineral water in clay containers. These clay bottles allowed the group to date ...
The 300-plus-year-old glass onion bottles were discovered from the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwreck, located off the coast of Florida.
When Tim Wollak’s 6-year-old daughter first saw something unusual while fishing in Lake Michigan, she thought it was an octopus. But the unusual item they detected off Wisconsin’s Green Island ...
The Frolic was a brig which sank northeast of Point Cabrillo, near Caspar, California.Historians have called it "the most significant shipwreck on the west coast". [2] Its shipwreck site, later known as "Pottery Cove" or "Frolic Cove", [3] was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Frolic (brig) in 1991.