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Did we find a new shipwreck? There is something.

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We can all definitely agree this is manmade.

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Wow.

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I've been doing this for 9.5 years and I've always wanted to find a shipwreck.

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How long's the ship? Do you know?

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Thirty-eight meters to about 10 wide.

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And this didn't show up in the multibeam?

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This multibeam was gridded at 50 meters resolution, so we were unable to see this target when planning,

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but we did pick the highest slope to do this test engineering dive on and luckily stumbled upon it,

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but it wasn't in the grid that we had.

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This is exploration at its finest.

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It's amazing, the craftsmanship that used to go into these.

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What we're actually looking at is the bottom of the hull of an ocean-going wooden sailing vessel.

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The upper portions have been consumed by marine organisms because they weren't copper sheathed.

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That copper was there to protect the hull during its sailing life.

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And by the 1830s, pretty much everybody that's going to do a deep-ocean voyage is coppered.

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Just looking at this style, the thickness of the copper, I'm thinking we're probably a little later than 19th century, more towards about 1850.

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That's just a guess, based on the copper alone. There's all sorts of things that we have to look at.

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What do you have on the edge there?

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Those are numbers. 2109. Looks like we found a name for the wreck.

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I'm wondering if this is burned wood here.

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It may well be burned, Joe. That's a good observation.

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This wreck is remarkably free of artifacts.

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It almost makes you wonder if this was at the end of its life and it just was easier to burn it.

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Who knows? I mean, leaves all sorts of questions.

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We all just want to thank you guys for, one, finding this on a shakedown engineering dive,

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and two, getting us all linked in and the opportunity to do this.

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A great start to the season.