An global volunteer diving crew has succeeded in figuring out the age of a different shipwreck mendacity on the backside of the Baltic Sea.
The crew, called Badewanne, at the starting up stumbled on the ruin final one year at the depth of 85m (279ft). This summer season, all the highest device during the filming of the documentary film ”Fluit,” the diving team stumbled on the transom of the exceptionally smartly-preserved ruin. As the divers succeeded in turning over the transom which modified into as soon as laying facedown on the seabed, an engraving with the one year 1636 modified into as soon as revealed alongside with an image of a swan. The swan is presumed to picture the name of the ship. The divers also took measurements of the ruin to get out the lawful dimension of the vessel.
The diving team will continue to evaluation the history of the ruin alongside with maritime archaeologists Minna Koivikko from the Finnish Heritage Agency and Martijn Manders from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, alongside with fluit expert and maritime archaeologist Niklas Eriksson from Stockholm College.
Basically based on Eriksson:
“The identities of ships were revealed by the carved motifs on the transom. Fragments of such motifs had been stumbled on earlier than, nonetheless now that we rep the total composition, we’re in a space to title the ship in the identical device as folks in the 17th century did. The ship modified into as soon as named ‘Swan’ and constructed in 1636. A more in-depth examination of the transom will perchance point out the coat of palms for the ship’s home port, as smartly.”
And Koivikko says:
“This finding restores my religion in miracles. I in point of fact rep by no advance skilled the relaxation love this in my profession spanning 30 years.”
The historical documentary film “Fluit,” produced by Tackle Productions, follows the investigation of the origin and the mission of the the fluit, a three-masted ship with a in point of fact capacious hull get, the identity of her sailors, and her untimely destiny in the 17th century Baltic Sea.
(List credits: ©Tackle Productions 2021)
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John Liang is the Files Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first obtained the diving worm while in Excessive School in Cairo, Egypt, the put he earned his PADI Delivery Water Diver certification in the Red Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, among white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Soar of Costa Rica, and different locations including a pool in Las Vegas serving to to interrupt the realm document for the largest underwater press conference.
