Posted on Sep 8, 2023
Mysterious 17th-century 'cauldron' may be primitive submarine used to salvage treasure from a...
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A copper dome recovered from the bottom of the ocean may be the remains of a 17th-century primitive submarine known as a diving bell — one of the world's first, and the earliest ever found.
The dome was found in 1980 near the 160-foot-deep (50 meters) shipwreck of the Santa Margarita, a Spanish treasure galleon that sank in 1622 in the Florida Straits, about 40 miles (65 km) west of Key West.
The discoverers assumed the circular object was an oversized cooking cauldron, and it's been housed ever since at the Mel Fisher Museum in Sebastian, Florida.
The dome was found in 1980 near the 160-foot-deep (50 meters) shipwreck of the Santa Margarita, a Spanish treasure galleon that sank in 1622 in the Florida Straits, about 40 miles (65 km) west of Key West.
The discoverers assumed the circular object was an oversized cooking cauldron, and it's been housed ever since at the Mel Fisher Museum in Sebastian, Florida.
Mysterious 17th-century 'cauldron' may be primitive submarine used to salvage treasure from a...
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That would be pretty interesting if in fact that was the actual use of the item that was found. No reason to believe that people could have invented enough to design and build a device to accomplish something like that especially if there is a motivation to extract treasure that otherwise might be lost forever that could not have been recovered.
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