[MR] Fwd: 1559 Shipwreck Found Off Pensacola, Fla.

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At that depth some folk could have free-dived to recover items, and they could also have used diving bells. - just weighted barrels with open bottoms.? I recall reading that most of the guns and some other items were recovered from the "Mary Rose" with the aid of diving bells.

~Donal Mac Ruiseart
MKA Jeb Raitt


-----Original Message-----
From: Tracie Brown <trbrown at uga.edu>
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Sent: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:53 pm
Subject: Re: [MR] 1559 Shipwreck Found Off Pensacola, Fla.



This is always exciting news. Archeologists have known that the ships were in 
the bay, and generally where, but actually locating them has taken time, even 
though they're in fairly shallow water. They're covered up in sand. 
Unfortunately they do not contain a lot of high-value artifacts because they 
went down in only 10-12 feet of water, and quite a lot of it was salvaged at the 
time.  


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