Sunken ships - how many of them are on the bottom of the seas and oceans? What secrets did they take with them?

The bottom of the seas and oceans has always attracted scientists, historians and simply adventurers. Studies are associated with greater risk, but those who wish do not become less for quite understandable reasons. The ocean bottom is not fully understood, it holds many secrets. Scientists are attracted to the possibility of historical research, because the coastline has changed for millennia. But most people are attracted to wrecks. Marine ships have been drowning since the man's first outflow to the sea, and now, according to UN experts, there are more than three million of them.

All attempts to penetrate the secrets of sunken ships are associated with various purposes. Scientists and historians are attracted by the archaeological heritage and the investigation of the cause of the disaster, because the ships were drowned for various reasons. Many attempts to find ships on the seabed are associated with a trivial search for the values that they were transported. Especially interested in such searchers are the times of piracy attacks and various military actions. It was then that the sea and ocean floor fell gold, silver, ceramics and other valuables.

Search Engagement

The nature of human nature is such that dreams take a long time. Someone even tries to implement them. And very many people do not want to earn money, but to find treasure trove. This could not but be reflected in art and culture. Sunken ships appear in adventure novels and novels, popular science articles and internet blogs, cognitive television programs and even games for computers or other digital devices. Especially modern users are attracted by the opportunity to feel like a treasure hunter, sitting at home in front of a monitor. Most important thing search for wrecks in ArcheAge are those who wake up such qualities as ambition and determination, after watching films about the lost treasures of Spanish squadrons. The game provides all opportunities for this.

The seabed of the Caribbean

Speaking of the American coast, the story of sunken ships will begin in 1492. This was the first voyage of Columbus, in which the flagship "Santa Maria" sank. The ship was never found, although the approximate place of its wreck is known. A few years later, the same navigator lost two more of his ships in the Caribbean.

After the discovery of America , the era of the export of gold to the Old World began, and the sunken ships began to cover the ocean floor more and more often. The Spanish galleons, accompanied by military escorts, could not always be saved from pirates or ships of Spain's enemies. The main opponents were England, France, Portugal and Holland. The Spaniards did not remain in debt: they tried to sink or capture as many units of the enemy fleet as possible. Many of the treasures of the wrecks of that era are still not found, and therefore have grown legends that only fuel the interest of treasure hunters.

Cemetery of ships - Baltic Sea

The bottom of the Baltic Sea is sometimes called a cemetery of ships - there sank a lot of vessels of different era of construction. About twenty of them were able to find ordinary divers - the submerged ships are so shallow. Many of them are well preserved, according to scientists, because of the low temperature and low salinity of water. The most ancient wreck was built in the Middle Ages.

It turned out that the interest in the remains of vessels resting on the bottom is so great that JSC "Marine Technologies" began to compile a kind of atlas and a catalog of sunken ships. Such types of equipment as planes, helicopters, etc. have got into these lists. Although research is being conducted throughout the Baltic Sea, the greatest attention is paid to the waters that belong to the territory of the Russian Federation.

Project "Secrets of sunken ships"

The project was launched in 2002. It is part of another large-scale idea - "Marine Legacy of Russia". The executive producer of the "Secrets of sunken ships" was Ilya Kochorov, and the scientific adviser was Andrei Lukoshkov. The main objects of research are the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Finland, Ladoga, Chudskoe and Onega Lake.

Participants find vessels for various purposes - both commercial and military ships. There is a question of identifying the found skeletons, their nationality, historical and archaeological value, as well as clarifying the personalities of people who found their death during the crash.

Expeditions organized by the project, were found such ships as naval armored vessels of the times of the Finnish war, landing craft, small armored hunting vessels.

The sea does not like strangers

Naturally, not only surface ships were used to investigate the depths and conduct military operations or reconnaissance operations - submarines of various purposes were built. But the seas and oceans steadfastly guard their secrets, so there are submarine wrecks. Only during the period from 1955 to 2014, we know of eight submerged nuclear submarines, two of which belonged to Russia. The number of diesel is approaching a hundred.

The most famous wrecks and their secrets

The most famous ship (and, perhaps, the largest) is the Titanic. And although the official version boils down to the fact that the ship collided with an iceberg and sank, not everyone believes it. First of all, because there are too many ambiguities left after the shipwreck investigation. A peculiar prediction of his death by the author of the novel "Titan" played its role.

If to speak about the largest sunken treasures, it is possible to name the ship Nuestra Señora de Atocha, sunk in the 17th century. The ship transported the wealth obtained in the New World. At the time of the shipwreck, there were tons of emeralds, gold and silver in the holds. These treasures were necessary to the Spanish monarch not only to replenish the treasury, but also to marry (his chosen one put the condition - to collect the most beautiful treasures that only exist in the world). And although the crash site was known - reefs near the coast of Florida, it could not be found until the 20th century.

Sunken ships that have not yet been found serve as a kind of bait, not only for scientists, but also for those who like fast enrichment. Therefore, it is possible, and for the better, that the sea reliably keeps its secrets.