America's Oldest Wreck Found

[Seth T.]

Cook Inlet is almost the size of Puget Sound

With a small fraction of the number of divers ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Yes, but I was thinking that someone would have inadvertantly come across it with sonar by now.

[Grateful Diver]

Possibly ... but wooden hulls don't last long in salt water, and probably what's left of the artifacts are things that will blend in pretty well with the bottom topography on instruments.

My guess is that a lot of hard work went into on-shore research before any actual in-water searching took place ... and the only reason they found it is because they knew specifically what to look for.

Things like this aren't typically very easy to "stumble" across ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

[Dmitchell]

You're not grasping how big this place is. And how small the population is.

Odds are no one has ever ran a boat across the place where the wreck is and if they did they weren't looking for it anyway.

We have big wrecks 20 minutes from the harbor. Even that close, they might go several months without anyone diving them.

I'm quasi looking for a wreck from 1898 90' long and steel 15 minutes from the harbor right in the middle of where everyone goes to fish all summer long. It's never been found.

You really have to be here to understand. According to Google earth, I'm sitting about 700 air miles from where that wreck is. That's the same distance as Seattle to San Francisco.

Dave

[kjc]

You're not grasping how big this place is.

You really have to be here to understand.

Dave

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