$22,529) each for removing artifacts like a ship's telephone and lantern from the German wrecks. Last year, two divers were reportedly fined £18,000 (U.S. There are no current plans to recover objects from the Scapa Flow wrecks the goal is to preserve the sunken ships in their original position. "It's quite important for us to understand their current condition and how they're deteriorating over time." "Divers are telling us these wrecks are changing drastically," Henry said. They also want to help establish a baseline view of the site for future study. The researchers hope that by comparing their images with previous data, they'll be able to see how the wreck sites are changing, moving or beginning to collapse. Her team gathered data with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and geophysical tools like a multibeam echosounder, which sends a fan of sound waves to bounce off the seafloor to map the underwater landscape. 14, 1939, and 833 were killed, according to historical reports.Īpart from the Vanguard, whose wreckage is quite scattered due to the nature of the explosions, the other nine wreck sites are largely intact, Henry said. HMS Royal Oak was torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War II, on Oct. That ship had been carrying British military commander Lord Kitchener on a diplomatic mission to Russia. From Rhode Islands Narragansett Bay to Maines St. HMS Hampshire struck a mine laid by the German navy on the west coast of Orkney (technically just outside of Scapa Flow) on June 6, 1916. Shipwrecks of the Northeast illustrates more than 5,400 known shipwrecks on the untamed Atlantic coast of New England (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island). Of the 845 people on board, only two survived.
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HMS Vanguard was destroyed when a spark set off a series of explosions on July 9, 1917. In addition to the seven ships of the German fleet, the researchers also collected new data on three British war graves, where diving is usually forbidden: HMS Vanguard, HMS Hampshire and HMS Royal Oak. (The gun turrets of the Bayern, for example, can still be seen in the seafloor mud.) Most of the wrecks were salvaged in the decades that followed, though there are still some remains of the salvaged ships that never made it to the surface. Only seven ships remain on the seabed today. A letter from a young British officer, published by BBC News last year, captured the drama of the day: "The water was one mass of wreckage of every description, boats, carley floats, chairs, tables and human beings, and the 'Bayern' the largest German battleship, her bow reared vertically out of the water was in the act of crashing finally bottomwards, which she did a few seconds later, in a cloud of smoke bursting her boilers as she went." The event was the greatest loss of warships in history, scientists say.
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