The ships of the Baltic Sea have been ghost ships

The Discovery of the Srum Logboat on the Glomma River and its earliest known shipwreck from the 1300s to the 1800s

The vessel, with its unique stem posts and overlapped planks, reveals a moment in the lake’s maritime history and is estimated to date between the 1300s and 1800s.

Meanwhile, the researchers continue to map out the bottom of the lake. So far, they have only mapped 15 square miles, but have much more to do. More shipwrecks will be found, according to degrd.

The freshwater environment and lack of wave activity kept the vessel in top shape, except for a small amount of rust at each end of the ship. The wearing away of the metal in the wreck is a sign that it has sat on the lake bed for a long time. He said that when all of the nails break, the ship will probably lose its structure.

The central rudder, which was used for steering before the late 13th century, is indicated in the stern section of the vessel. Combining those two features, archaeologists were able to estimate the ships range of no earlier than 1300 and no later than 1850.

The ship is built using a technique in which the plank of the body are parallel to one another. It was used during the Viking Age to make the vessel lighter and stronger and is known as clinker construction.

The ship was believed to have gone down in bad weather since it was found in the middle of the lake. It’s most likely that the ship used square-shaped sails, he added, that proved to be difficult to navigate for seafarers caught in extremely windy conditions.

The oldest vessel to be discovered in Norway’s waters to date is the Sørum logboat, found in the Bingen Booms on the Glomma River and dated back to 170 BC. The nearly 2,200-year-old shipwreck was relatively well preserved for being thousands of years old.

During the Viking Age, the lake served as a big trade route, although there are notable gaps in what is known before and during these times, according to Ødegård. Regardless of the age, any find will tell us better about how the shipbuilding tradition was developed in an inland lake compared to the Nordic countries.

On the final day of the exploration, the researchers had sent down an ROV in an attempt to capture footage of the wreck, but they had to abort the mission due to bad weather. degrd would like to try again in the next year.

“We could find vessels from since the beginning of human activity in the area. They could be present, and in good condition,” Ødegård said. “You can’t rule out anything.”

The Last of All Long Shots: The Birth of a Vaccine and the Story of Johann Sparrow’s Celestial Atlas

The UK government decided in April 2020 to speed up deployment of the vaccine. The first person to be jabbed was eight months later. Credit goes to the Vaccine Taskforce led by Kate Bingham, a biochemistry graduate and health venture capitalist, working from home during lockdown. She knew of the risks of vaccines failing and lack of government training. The inside story of this “lastest of all long shots” was detailed in her book.

Nature is full of sounds that humans cannot hear. The raised-tail mating display of male peacocks involves powerful infrasound; bats and toothed whales emit beams of ultrasound and navigate using the echoes that come back. Karen Bakker, a tech entrepreneur and academic, compares digital technology that can reveal these sounds with the microscope’s effect on vision. By extending our hearing, the technology allows us to encounter “new soundscapes around the world and across the Tree of Life”.

Mathematician, astronomer and cartographer Johann Doppelmayr created his largely forgotten celestial atlas in Germany in 1742. This book has illustrations and text by astronomer Giles Sparrow and was written by a UK royal astronomer. The frontispiece depicted astronomers Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe. Isaac Newton is absent; his 1687 concept of gravity was, Sparrow notes, too close to “occult forces” for many natural philosophers of the time.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04478-7

The Lost Ships: Pantistically Mystical Discovery of Deep-Sea Divers in the History of the African Slave Trade

About 12 million Africans were forcibly shipped to the Americas in the 700-year history of the slave trade. There are seven surviving deep-sea wrecks of ships used in the trade and two freedom ships carrying fugitives from slavery investigated using mixed-gas diving and remotely operated vehicles. His book, written with marine archaeologist Sean Kingsley, vividly explores these disturbing sunken archaeological archives.

In the cold war, space exploration’s wonders served a race between political systems. In the 21st century, religion and science scholars say they are subject to commercial rivalry between billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk who are advocating that space is a refuge from Earth’s destruction. She argues that we must eschew such myopic, colonialist “astrotopia”, and listen instead to a sort of “pantheistic mysticism” — valuing and learning from the cosmic environment — scorned by past imperialists.

Carl Douglas and the others dived into the Baltic Sea to look for vessels that were lost in the ocean.

Dahm takes haunting photographs as he dives. The sunken ship furniture, wall carvings, and clock are all intact.

Douglas and Dahm plan trips to particular sites to see particular ships. They get tips from local fishermen, and other times follow in the footsteps of other divers.

“I was scared of water – but things that scare often also fascinate,” he tells CNN Travel. After a bit of persuasion from friends, he gave diving a shot.

He explains that they are two to three divers working together while he is the only one who can handle close-ups.

The team can’t ever linger as Dahm and Douglas are at the depths. The ships submerged as deep as 60 meters are in the book.

“We don’t know its name, why it sank or where it was headed. Dahm said the ship had a valuable cargo and did not reach its destination.

The Stories of Victims of Katrina-Circumsevices, a Memoir in Douglas’s Memory

“In many cases they represent disasters where people lost their lives under terrible circumstances,” writes Douglas in the book. We honor the victims by visiting these sites, and we tell the story of what happened.

Not every story is knowable, and the divers find something oddly satisfying in that unknown, while they love to discover answers to their questions.