A fish swims in front of a wreck. Photograph: Observer
Posted on 04/21/2012 8:35:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Trawlerman Dennis Hunt was crossing Colwyn Bay in his boat in 1995 when its nets snagged on the seabed. Unable to free them, Hunt contacted diver Keith Hurley, who swam 60ft down to the sea floor -- and found that the nets were caught on a rusting submarine's conning tower.
Hunt and Hurley had found the Resurgam, one of Britain's first submarines, which sank in 1880. It was a key historical discovery but certainly not a first for fishermen.
Every day hundreds of items, ranging from Spitfire engines to ancient stone tools, are dragged up by fishing vessels while wreck sites are revealed after nets become snagged on sunken craft.
As fishing intensifies, more discoveries are being made this way, a process that threatens to run out of control. As a result, English Heritage will launch a pilot scheme this month that aims to keep in order the avalanche of historical finds now produced by our fishermen.
"There are about 46,000 recorded shipwrecks, crashed aircraft and sites of archaeological finds in English waters that we know of," said archaeologist Simon Davidson. "However, these recorded sites only make up about 10% of the total down there, we estimate."
In addition, it is reckoned that, in the second world war alone, 13,000 aircraft were lost in UK waters, including the plane that carried the American swing band leader Glenn Miller on a flight that disappeared, presumed lost in action, on 15 December 1944. "This collection of lost ships and aircraft represents an enormous historical resource," said Davidson. "Certainly, given its size, it is not surprising so many items get dredged up by fishermen."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
A fish swims in front of a wreck. Photograph: Observer
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I caught a fish once and he says to me he says, “I’m a Magic Trout and if you put me back in the water, I will grant you one wish.”
So I throw him back into the lake and I wishes for a beer. Nothing. Not even a beer bottle cap.
So I went and voted for Obama.
NO WAY!!!! The exact same thing happened to me!!!
“Every day hundreds of items, ranging from Spitfire engines to ancient stone tools, are dragged up by fishing vessels while wreck sites are revealed after nets become snagged on sunken craft.”
Every day is pretty astounding.
And thanx for your always fun to read articles.
Trout lie.
(Kinda like sheep)...
The game warden was always suspicious of his good friend, a friend from childhood, because of the size of his catch. His friend would never tell him his secrets, until one night he caught him shining deer, and said he’d let him off if he took him fishing.
The next legal opportunity they headed off to his friend’s favorite fishing spot, which turned out to be a shallow estuary off a much larger lake. They donned their gear. The warden noticed that his friend had just a couple of small nets and a bag attached to his belt. They waded out a bit.
His friend reached in the bag, pulled out a stick of dynamite, lit it with his cigar, and tossed it out into the lake. A few seconds later, BOOM, and not long after that the surface of the lake started to fill with stunned, dying, and dead fish. His friend worked quickly, scooping up fish by the netful and piling them on the shore before going back for more. The warden was stunned!
Finally, after all the fish were on the shore, the warden found his voice and lit into his friend, reading him the riot act about his many violations, ending with, “and you are going to JAIL!”
His friend reached in the bag, lit a stick of dynamite, handed it to the warden, and said, “did you come here to fish, or to talk?”
My pleasure, and thanks for the kind remarks. And I’m thankful for Archaeologica, which does most of the work. :’)
So these idiots have a chance to take a picture of a submarine from 1880 and they have a f ing pict of a fish?
Me too! Oh....wait....I started this.....
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