Tuesday, October 9, 2007

PLN 9

Today i was reading a post by The Denver Post named 1868 Shipwreck Found Off Alaska by Jeannette J. Lee. The article stated that a private dive team has discovered the wreckage of an American ship that sank off the south-central Alaska coast 139 years ago. The ships name was later discovered as The Torrent. It sank after tidal currents smashed it into a reef. Previous records show that all 155 people on board the ship had survived. This shipwreck is the oldest found in Alaska's history, and over 2,500 ships have been recorded that have wrecked in Alaska. This discovery makes myself and hopefully the others around me, if we can find a ship that has crashed and sunk 140 years ago what else could we find?

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