Posted on 09/18/2014 9:22:35 AM PDT by EveningStar
The waters just west of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge hide a graveyard of sunken ships. By some estimates, there are 300 wrecks in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area alone. But only a fraction of them have been seen by scientists.
Marine archaeologists and researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have set out to document those lost vessels. Over the course of a five-day survey that just ended yesterday (Sept. 15), the team discovered the sites of at least four wrecks: the 1910 SS Selja shipwreck, the 1863 wreck of the clipper ship Noonday and two unidentified wrecks.
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How deep?
Interesting. In his memoirs, W.T. Sherman recounts how as a young officer posted to California, he traveled by ship, all the way around Tierra del Fuego and back north. IIRC, Sherman’s ship was wrecked in the approach to SF Bay...
Very cool.
The SS Hillary.
Interesting!
Nasty currents out there IIRC. I don’t think anybody would want to drive these wrecks, if that’s what you’re thinking.
The place is crawling with Great Whites.
Made it through Tierra del Fuego only to be sunk approaching SF bay. Now that’s a slap in the fantail.
REALLY deep—though not in Titanic terms. Like 2 miles right outside the gate
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Yep. As I’ve learned about the area, its practically not diveable due to the extreme currents and undertows, and the water near mud. I think there could be amazing historical treasures down there, but they are likely literally unreachable.
I thought that a ghost ship was a ship that was abandoned but still floating and just moving around the oceans.
I love this stuff.
The site provides an address that has a clickable inventory of pics, etc. of ships sunk in that area. On my DSL, some are sloooow loads.
http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/farallones-shipwrecks/
Watch for cankles. They’ll rip your keel away.
Huma-huma.
Me too, and this area in particular. I have a terrific old out of print book about it at home.
Thanks! :)
Probably a lot down there, During the gold rush,
many ships were abandoned by their crews and left
to rot and sink after making the trip around the
Horn carrying miners bound for the gold fields.
Yes, but further in where the waterfront was filled in. They get found by construction crews in SF from time to time. These are wrecks that are outside the Gate, which I find fascinating.
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