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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 last shipwreck was the Merrimac, which occurred in 1999. With the many advances in modern navigation, the two lighthouses have been decommissioned. Due to the strange (and mostly uninhabited) location of Sable Island, Guglielmo Marconi made it an outpost for radio communication experimentation. In 1901, Marconi thought this Atlantic island ...
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.
The 40-foot-long wreck, which sits under just 6 feet of water, likely sank sometime around the fourth century A.D., making it about 1,700 years old. ... “The results help to shed some light into ...
After spotting the wreck, Wollak started researching to see if he could identify the ship. ... They were able to see a wooden three-masted sailing ship, about 8 to 10 feet deep in the water ...
The wreck matches the descriptions of the George L. Newman, which was built in 1855 and sank in 1871 during the worst forest fire in U.S. history. A 4-year-old Peshtigo girl went fishing on Lake ...
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 ...
Maritime archaeologists believe they have solved the mystery of a shipwreck that has lain off the Dorset coast for more than 120 years. The sunken ship, known as the Pin Wreck, was first ...