“‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found”

“‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found”

 

The Black Sea, courtesy of NASA
A NASA public domain image of the Black Sea

 

Pretty spectacular:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/shipwrecks-black-sea-archaeology.html

 

Really well preserved old ships — like Stockholm’s Vasa and the Viking ships of Oslo (both of which my wife and I visited this past summer) — are highly instructive but also quite rare.

 

I would love to see some of these brought to the surface, if that’s at all practical.

 

 


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