Archaeologists think the boat may have met a fiery end.
Researchers testing equipment in the Gulf of Mexico inadvertently discovered the 200-year-old wreckage of a ship earlier this month. Evidence from the wreck suggests it’s sailors may have come to a fiery end.
ROV 'Deep Discoverer' approaching the bow of a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday May 16, 2019. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research A close-up view of the bow of a ship found in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, May 16, 2019. Marine life is prevalent on the wreck, except on the copper sheathing which still retains its antifouling ability to keep the hull free of marine organism like Teredo navalis that would otherwise burrow into the wood and consume the hull or barnacles that would reduce the vessel’s speed.
The numbers “2109” are visible along the trailing edge of the rudder of a shipwreck discovered in the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday May 16, 2019. The pattern of nails securing the copper sheathing is plainly visible. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
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