Some bottles of champagne have disappeared from the wreck of a 19th-century sailing ship found in July at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, said expedition leader Tomasz Stachura from the “Baltitech” group. In his opinion, the sunken ship was “visited” by another group of divers who took part of the valuable cargo.
“Last week, in agreement with the Swedish authorities, we visited the wreck again, among other things to make a super-accurate 3D photogrammetric model. Our next trip to the wreck with champagne was short but meaningful,” Tomasz Stachura (original spelling) reported on social media.
Stachura noted in the entry that, in his opinion, the wreck had been “visited” by other divers. “Many things are scattered, and a few bottles of champagne 'disappeared',” assessed the head of the expedition. He added that the divers managed to perform a detailed inventory, and Bartłomiej Pitala performed photogrammetry (photos from which a 3D model of the sunken sailboat was created).
A sailing ship sunk in the Baltic Sea
In mid-July, divers from the “Baltictech” group from the Tri-City reported the discovery of a 16-meter wooden sailboat filled with a hundred bottles of champagne, wine and mineral water. The vessel is located near the island of Oland at a depth of 58 meters. A video recording and photos were presented as evidence.
The approximate date of the ship's sinking was indicated by the preserved Selters marks on clay bottles of German mineral water. This type of water was produced in the years 1850-1880.
After the discovery was made public, the Swedish government decided to legally protect the wreck. This decision means that diving near the wreck and plundering it is prohibited. Magnus Johansson from the government office in Karlskrona in southeastern Sweden Sweden at the beginning of August he informed that the objects located on the wreck could not be fished out without their consent.
According to Swedish officials, the sunken sailboat was found during measurements by the Swedish Maritime Administration in 2016, but its valuable cargo was not known. “This knowledge is due to the Poles, (who) helped assess the cultural and historical value of the wreck,” Johansson said at the time.
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The Tri-City diving team “Baltictech” has also discovered the wreck of the steamer “Karlsruhe” sunk in April 1945 on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The ship sank while carrying evacuees from East Prussia. Germans and cargo.
For years, divers have been conducting an expedition called “Santi Odnaleźć Orła”, the aim of which is to find the wreck of the ORP Orzeł, which, for unexplained reasons, disappeared along with its crew during a patrol in the North Sea at the turn of May and June 1940.
Main image source: Stachuraphoto.com