Plunging water levels along the drought-stricken Mississippi River exposed the remains of a trading ship believed to date back to the 1800s.
Severe drought across the Midwest has shrunk the Mississippi to record lows, with more than 40 river gauges in the river basin reporting low water levels, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Baton Rouge resident Patrick Ford told WBRZ that he had been out observing the river’s receding waters for weeks but the discovery of a ship was unexpected.
In 1992, “they did some limited investigations and could look at very small pieces – basically sort of one or two foot wide parts of it – to try to get an understanding of how it was constructed and how old it was,” he said. “At that time, it was not nearly as exposed as it is now. It was still largely buried in mud and they had to do a lot of digging to even see little pieces of it.
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