10.
A Ship of Riches The Russian armored cruiser ship called the
Dmitri Donskoi sank off the coast of South Korea in 1905.
In 2018, it was rediscovered by an exploration group.
They found the vessel over 1200 feet (365m) beneath the surface of the ocean.
It had once belonged to the Russian Baltic Fleet, sailing the seven seas from 1885 until
eventually, it was blown to pieces during the Battle of Tsushima.
This was back when Russia was fighting against Japan before World War 1.
The ship sank, but no one knew exactly where it sank, and through the years it was just
kind of forgotten and abandoned.
But here's the deal, the shipwreck could be holding as much as $130 billion in gold!
So how do people just forget about that?!
The Korean marine exploration company that found it said that they also discovered some
mysterious iron boxes.
When the ship was lost at sea, it was supposedly carrying 200 tons (181,437kg) of gold.
If these iron boxes are what the explorers think they are, they are literally chests
of treasure that could make every last one of them mega rich!
Now it's just a matter of the explorers actually diving down and bringing the boxes back to
the surface.
Seems like a small price to pay for a mission, considering what the reward could be!
9.
The Most Famous Shipwreck On the beautiful island of Zakynthos in Greece,
there is a famous shipwreck that's been photographed by more tourists than any other abandoned
wreck on the planet.
The wreckage can be found at Navagio Beach, a secluded cove with pristine sand, crystal-clear
water, and a rusting ship that looks totally out of place.
What's really mysterious is that no one is quite sure how the ship got there in the first
place.
We know it was sometime between 1980 and 1983.
The ship was called the MV Panayiotis, and it was part of a smuggling operation.
It smuggled humans, cigarettes, and wine into Greece.
It was when the authorities caught it that the ship accidentally got itself cornered
in the cove.
At least, this is one theory.
There are many other theories, like that the ship lost power, or that it accidentally washed
ashore because of the weather, etc.
Either way, the villagers saw the ship crash and quickly ran down to the cove.
There, as the small crew tried to protect their cargo, the villagers ran away with everything
they could get their hands on.
The ship has been sitting there in the sand ever since, and it’s quite the sight to
see!
8.
The Nazi Hunter An abandoned ship, a Nazi-hunter from World
War Two, has just recently been discovered off the coast of Canada.
It's the US Revenue Cutter Bear, identified after being lost 60 years ago in the cold
of the North Atlantic.
The ship was originally built in Scotland back in 1874 as a steam-powered vessel.
It had a long career in the Coast Guard, it fought in both wars, and it got famous for
its successful patrols in the waters off the coast of Greenland.
It was there where it helped to track and apprehend German spy ships, like the Nazi
vessel Buskoe.
But after 89 years of dedicated service, the US had no more use for the ship.
It was decommissioned in 1963 and was supposed to be a floating restaurant stationed in Philadelphia.
But as it was being moved from Nova Scotia in Canada to Philadelphia, it broke free of
its towline and was lost.
Nobody bothered to go look for it, and it sank in the Atlantic.
It wasn't until 2019 that a research expedition discovered its underwater remains totally
by accident.
They were able to identify the Bear by analyzing its various features and dimensions, which
matched up with historical records.
7.
The Punic War Ship In the Mediterranean, an ancient, abandoned
ship from 2200 years ago was discovered.
When researchers went down to look at the ship, lying on the seabed off the coast of
Sicily, they discovered a whole host of distinct animal species living in it.
What was once a fabulous warship is now a home to over 100 unique marine animals!
How this ship ended up on the bottom of the sea is a fascinating story.
It was when Rome and Carthage first started fighting in the middle of the 3rd century
BC.
The year was 264 and there was a great naval battle off the island of Sicily.
The fighting actually went on for about 23 years!
That’s a long time!
At some point during the warfare, what’s known as the First Punic War, this ship sank.
Then over the course of 2000 years, it became a stable marine ecosystem.
Researchers found 33 different types of gastropods, 25 species of mollusks, 33 types of worms,
and over 23 types of bryozoans living on the ship’s bronze ram alone.
If you had the chance, would you take a deep dive down to this abandoned ship to check
out all the spectacular marine life?
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:) 6.
The Lusitania Just one year after World War One erupted,
on May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat and destroyed.
This wasn't a military ship, but an ocean liner that was on its way from New York to
Liverpool.
Out of the 1900 passengers and crew, 1100 perished.
It was one of the biggest pushes the US had to finally enter the war, although they still
didn't step up for another two years.
The ship was found 20 years after it sank in 1935.
Ever since, underwater investigators have been trying to find clues hidden inside the
shipwreck.
While it's impossible right now to bring the enormous liner back to the surface, they have
managed to recover some artifacts.
Particularly, they've been bringing telegraphs up from the ruined ship in hopes that they
contain information via commands sent to the engine room from officers on the bridge.
But as of yet, no useful information has been found.
The ship is still sitting abandoned, 270 feet (82m) beneath the surface.
5.
The Ship of the French Baron About 40 years ago, a mysterious sunken ship
was found in the water off the coast of Israel.
New research is suggesting that this suspicious abandoned vessel may have belonged to a famous
French baron.
Researchers have pored through records and documents from the 1800s and concluded that
the wreck is connected to Baron de Rothschild, a filthy rich French banker.
The ship itself was discovered by a diver in 1976 in the Tantura Lagoon.
But the diver didn't have much money.
And at the time, people weren't super interested in abandoned shipwrecks.
Nobody bothered excavating the thing until 2008.
That was when they found the ship extremely well preserved, still filled with goods – even
sacks of hazelnuts and peanuts.
According to Live Science, historical records show that the baron was sending goods through
his shipping company to a Jewish settlement on the coast.
This ship must have been in the middle of a delivery when something happened and it
found itself sitting at the bottom of the sea.
4.
The Point Reyes Boat The Point Reyes Boat is abandoned in Inverness,
California.
There's not much left of it now, a huge piece of boat-shaped metal sitting on a sandbar.
It's one of the most photographed shipwrecks anywhere in the US because of its position
in a protected wetland.
Among the animals and native plants, it's a great big rotting hulk of wood and metal
that just doesn't belong.
How did it get here?
It was originally dragged by the previous landowner up onto the sandbar because he intended
to fix the ship.
But like so many projects, this one never got done.
The owner never got around to making the repairs, he abandoned the boat where it was, and that
was it.
The land was eventually sold to a wetlands restoration firm.
They had been planning to destroy the ship but local photographers helped petition to
keep the shipwreck where it stands.
It worked, and really paid off.
Now there's even a trail that leads to the picturesque wreckage.
And if you’re feeling brave, you can even climb onto the boat.
It’s just not highly recommended because you might break through the wooden floor and
be impaled by something spiky!
3.
Royal Navy Shipwreck A mysterious shipwreck was discovered on a
Latvian beach.
It wasn't a fishing boat from a local village, not even a discarded and abandoned cruise
liner.
Instead, it appears to be the broken remains of a Royal Navy warship from 200 years ago!
The experts in Latvia found exposed beams on a sandy beach no more than a few miles
away from Riga.
But it wasn't until excavators arrived with massive digging machines that the entire ship
was revealed.
They were able to look at the building material and date it to Britain in the mid-1800s.
Sadly, almost nothing is known of the origin of the ship.
Its timbers are crafted of oak, copper nails were used in its construction, and the best
guess historians have is that it was a warship for the British Royal Navy.
It probably went on patrol in the Baltics.
If not a warship, it may have been a merchant vessel bringing goods from England to the
North Seas and back.
But there’s really no way to tell for sure.
Experts don't even know how it ended up abandoned on the beach, buried in several feet of sand!
2.
A Mysterious Tanker The wreckage of a mysterious tanker was found
off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in the Flemish Pass Basin.
Neil Burgess with the local preservation society revealed sonar images of the ship, showing
it’s still sitting upright at the bottom of the ocean.
But how the ship got there and when it happened is anybody's guess.
One shot in the dark was that the ship was once a British oil tanker that, surprise-surprise,
was destroyed by German U-boats in World War Two.
We know of 1 tanker in the area that got hit with five torpedoes and was broken clean and
half.
However, photographs of the ship haven't matched up with the sonar images.
There are now heaps of other possibilities.
The ship could be a German fishing trawler that sank back in 1985, or it could be the
remains of a Russian container ship that went down in ‘82.
The difficulty in determining its identity just goes to show how many shipwrecks are
currently abandoned in the seas, seemingly everywhere you look.
1.
The 1942 Outer Banks Disaster 80 years ago in 1942, the Lady Hawkins disappeared
off the coast of North Carolina, killing over 250 people.
The ship was a Canadian luxury liner that got blown up by a German U-boat, as was so
common during the war.
But what's really mysterious about the Lady Hawkins is that the wreckage has never actually
been found.
Despite our modern technology and sea floor mapping equipment, nobody knows where the
bones of the ship lie.
And it's not like historians and archeologists haven't been looking.
It's as if a full cruise ship just vanished into thin air.
Only 71 out of 322 people on board the ship survived the attack.
What we know for sure is that the U-boat blasted the ship, her forward mast broke, she careened
onto her side, and everybody started tumbling into the water.
Then a second torpedo hit the engine room.
It was a miracle that 71 people in their nightclothes managed to get to a single lifeboat and reach
safety.
All these years later, the Lady Hawkins is still missing and there's no sign of it anywhere.
Some believe the wreckage may never be found, while others eagerly await it’s rediscovery.
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