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Waiting Underwater for The Salvage Crew! Sunken gold coins worth millions of dollars Those coins have been down there long. The mighty Atlantic Ocean could not swallow the treasure as was believed so long! Somewhere in the ocean, there is a bounty of sunken gold worth millions of dollars waiting to be found and finally raised to the surface! It is therefore not lost forever!! Although, many of the treasure hunters have tried to find the exact location where the passenger ship that carried the treasure sank, only one such team knows where it rests now on the ocean floor. However, Can the team retrieve the treasure from the bottom of the ocean to the surface? The team leader, Elder believes that this can be done. To do so, the treasure hunter’s team will require ingenuity, drive... and a large mechanical claw. More than 156 years ago from this day, 100 miles off the shore of the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, one of the world’s biggest ocean going ship, SS Connaught, slowly began to fill with water. By sheer luck, the passengers were rescued, but the ship sank along with millions of dollars’ worth of gold coins-- stored in its vault, to the bottom of the ocean. What sort of ship was Connaught? Connaught was a mighty ship---“370ft (113m) long – and the second largest steamer in the world at the time, outsized only by Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s gargantuan SS Great Eastern. A side-wheel steamer, the Connaught would traverse the North Atlantic. She’d bring emigrants to the New World, deliver mail and, of course, ferry wealthy passengers back and forth in luxury. Launched at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, on 21 April 1860, within months the Connaught had completed her maiden voyage. She would never complete her second.” The SS Connaught was sunk by a fire. On the fateful day, the ill-fated ship was just over a hundred miles from Boston, her next port of call. The sailors, working in the engine room of the ship discovered a leak – water was pouring into the hull. “ The Connaught was soon listing. Captain Leitch shouted orders to man the pumps, steer the vessel, and eventually to shut the engines off before the ship could be righted again. When she was, the situation seemed manageable.” But then a fire had broken out. No-one seems to know how it began. Buckets of water could not halt the blaze. A tiny trade boat called the Minnie Schiffer could rescue passengers from the stricken ship by sheer luck. The passengers of the great ship, now on board of the tiny trade ship, could see the burning ship slowly going under the waves of mighty ocean for good! Eldred’s expedition boat, now anchored at Gloucester, has all the required equipment such as winches, cables, and an underwater robot crammed on its deck! Eldred and his team are now almost ready for the expedition to bring the glittering coins out of the dark region of the ship wreck now resting on the bottom of the ocean. It is expected that Eldred and his team would succeed to retrieve the gold from the bottom of the ocean and thereby will become some of treasure-hunting’s great pioneers. Happy Reading:    |
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2/13/2016 8:58 am |
Interesting that they would choose this time of year for their attempt at salvaging the treasure. The seas off that part of the country are very cold and stormy right now. It won't make much difference to the divers but certainly will make things more difficult for their support people. Spiritwoman ^i^
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Thank you so much, Mary Ann. It is always nice to read from you on here.Have a nice time!
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Interesting that they would choose this time of year for their attempt at salvaging the treasure. The seas off that part of the country are very cold and stormy right now. It won't make much difference to the divers but certainly will make things more difficult for their support people. I am not sure when they will actually attempt to start salvaging the treasure. But surely this will be a challenging job for them! The adverse sea conditions may not assist them to do their job efficiently! Thank you for stopping by my blog. Have a pleasant time!
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