The bottom of the world’s oceans is literally strewn with sunken ships. According to the UN, there are about 3 million of them. These are antique galleys full of amphorae, and the ships of the first merchant seafarers filled with foreign goods, and pirate ships with looted treasures, and Spanish galleons carrying gold from the New to the Old World, and the ships of researchers and discoverers, and many warships. They sank at different times under different circumstances.
We will tell you about the largest ship cemeteries, which are famous as «ship eaters»: they seem to deliberately lure and destroy passing ships along with their passengers and cargo.
- Cape Hatteras, USA… (read more)
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