Gulf of Mexico 2012: Spectacular New Shipwreck Discovery
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- View video footage captured by the Little Hercules remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and camera platform during the April 26, 2012, ROV dive from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer during the Gulf of Mexico Expedition 2012.
The dive was conducted at site 15577 -- a recently mapped but never-before-seen shipwreck in the western Gulf of Mexico. The dive revealed the remnants of a copper-sheathed sailing ship, likely from the early to mid-19th century. While most of the wood has since disintegrated, the oxidized copper sheathing remained along with a variety of artifacts. These included plates, glass bottles, guns, cannons, the ship's stove, navigational instruments, and anchors. This was a spectacular dive that represented a truly remarkable find.
Video courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico Expedition 2012.
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Love the haunting music , it.goes so well with the Visio ,untold story.
It took me a minute to realize what looked like the bow of an iron or steel ship was the copper sheathing used to line the underwater hulls of wooden ships. Its fascinating that it retains the ship's lines after the wood has almost disappeared. This was among the coolest wreck video I've seen, so thanks so much for doing it and letting us see it, too!
Absolutely amazing video! Soundtrack fits perfectly. Combined sadness for the sailors and awe of such a find.
As an ex Australian Navy sailor, it always haunts me watching see wrecks. Soo much history. May all the sailors R.I.P
I can watch this stuff all day. I have the utmost respect for those that traveled the oceans back then in wooden ships. Our ancestors had balls, big giant balls. Would love to know the history of this ship if any is available.
2:44 Hour glasses?
2:58 Sextant?
The ocean floor is a fantastic museum.
Try this as a guess: USS Hornet, 106 foot sloop of war commissioned in 1805, dismasted and lost with all hands in a storm in 1829. "She departed Pensacola for the last time on 4 March 1829, setting course for the coast of Mexico, and was never seen again. On 27 October 1829 the commander of the West Indies Squadron received information that Hornet had been dismasted in a gale off Tampico on 10 September 1829 and had foundered with the loss of all hands." That would explain a few things, being a small naval vessel of the early 19th century, and it seems to be in the right general area. ** It took me less than ten minutes to watch this video and then research the potential vessel before I went to work this morning...disclaimer.
One of the best dives I've ever seen. THANK YOU! for keeping the area around the dive pristine for video. So many times there's silt everywhere - but not on these. Great job and very interesting wreck.
Really sharp visuals, Its like I could put my hand through the screen and touch the objects. Brilliant thanks.
The clarity of the video is amazing.
The sharpness of the picture is brilliantly echoed in the bright clear sound. The slow pace of the camera is perfectly reflected in the hunting melody of the sound track, were the familiar and the strange be come unworldly. A great combination by the director. This is were superb work transcends in to art.
The images were so clear and sharp it looks like you can reach out and touch the artifacts. Thank you for sharing.
The bottles are Dutch origin. Some are called Spanish onions gin bottles are the tapered ones. 1780s to 1850s. Some look like shear tops or paddle tops on the rums. Ship looks like an armed Dutch or Spanish trader but why here. This ship is way out of its realm. Amazingly this ship came around the bottom of South America and up the west coast.
Does anyone know the background music?
It’s hauntingly beautiful
Fantastic wreck! I enjoy seeing the personal artifacts in the debris fields more than the boats.
Music was perfect for this video!
I really enjoyed the history behind this wreck! Glad they explained what we were looking at!!!
I can't believe how clear it is! Beautiful.
Very cool. One of my favorites. So neat to see the repairs made to the ship still hold. Even though the ship is PRACTICALLY gone.
I always find my way back to this video. This is simply incredible! Just noticed the trigger guard at 3:12 wow!
It's amazing how clear the water is.
The lights are amazing. You can see so much! Thank you.
Copper sheathing, brass spikes, square rum bottles and cannons a couple hundred or more years old. Incredible crystal clear visibility, a wreck divers dream find!
The last time I saw rum bottles like that was at the bar at the Bitter End Yacht Club in Virgin Gorda BVI. Dozens of them salvaged off a local shipwreck.
The green is copper sheathing (you can clearly see this at the 4:14 mark) of the below the water line hull timbers. It was first done around the 1760's and the Royal Navy decided during the American Revolution to sheath the bottoms of all their ships with copper. Merchant ship owners soon followed suit. This helped protect the wooden hull timbers from wood devouring organisms as well as the corrosive effects of salt water. Prior to that lead sheathing was tried; I forget why it didn't work as well as hoped. Before lead sheathing paint mixed with lead or different mixtures of tar was used.
So we are looking at the wreck of a ship from the late 18th century or later. The cannon is odd. There was only one, or they only found one. It has a lot of concretion on it making it difficult to identify. The bottles, the ships anchor and the cannon all might help narrow down the exact age of this wreck for people with more expertise in these things than I have. However, even those can be misleading. For example, lets say the cannon was removed to the surface and identified as having been manufactured in France in the 1770's. It doesn't mean it's a French ship or that it was built in the 1770's. The cannon could have been taken from a captured French ship and placed on a British or Spanish ship ten of twenty years later. But there are people who can look at all these clues, and others that weren't captured in the video, and probably identify both the nationality of the vessel and what decade it comes from.
I wonder if there will be further work done on this wreck site. I hope so.
Music is awesome. Thought provoking when combined with the images.
Those bottles look to be from the 1840s-20s or so. Pretty awesome find.
Scientific exploration is phenomenal!!! Great job NOAA. Thank you for your exceptional services you provide us with minimal tax dollars.
The background sound quality is perfectly awesome and the whole footage in the video 👍 So nice..
I would imagine this is USS Hatteras, sunk by CSS Alabama in 1863, for two reasons - Hatteras’s wreck was discovered in 2012, and the cannon looks to be a Dahlgren. Hatteras was the only US Navy vessel sunk in battle in the Gulf of Mexico during the American Civil War.
As an ex Rov Pilot Sub Engineer I must commend the Pilot for not kicking up the silt.
Excellent music choice. Very interesting wreck, lots of artifacts.
Wow!!! You can see her hull was sheathed in Copper. The stove where they cooked their meals, hour-glasses, medicine bottles (the squared ones) anchors & cannon, obviously.
If they could find the ships bell, we could learn who she was, when she was built, & by who.
Very Cool Video!!!
Unbelieavable clarity! It's like it's sitting in my living room right in front if me. Makes you want to reach out & touch it. We need this to explore the Baltuc Sea anomaly!
All that seemed to remain of the hull was the green "copper bottom", the copper sheathing to stop the ship worm.
now that's HD ! awesome
The wreck and the video work are both outstanding. The captured video has unbelievable clarity & depth. How much of the video picture quality is due to editing & how much is due to super good camera & capture quality? The story edit itself is outstanding. I feel like I'm there in a mini sub, looking out of a window, right there in person. Super nice.....
Great, great background music to this sunken tragedy from the past.
Just watching,, identifying those artefacts on the seabed is most entertaining .love it . .
Thanks for posting. Always interesting to see old wrecks found. BTW, FYI 1333 m. = 4373.35958 Feet. It would be neat if all the stuff could be retrieved but I doubt there would be a positive R.O.I.
@ 3:53 you can see a stone wheel. Probably for a wagon or grinding wheel of some sort. Very interesting discovery, good bottle collection. @ 2:44 those double round glass looks like hour glasses and the wood that was on it deteriorated
The image is so clear.
I seen an hour glass and copper sheathing and nails going to watch it again
Outstanding vis and super high quality definition. Great footage guys !
Fantastic picture quality and framing of the artefact's, combined with the hunting music makes for a beautiful film.. Magical.
Wow so peaceful! Frozen in time in its watery grave.
Thank you very much for uploading this. :)
Omg, that was 4 minutes of bliss.. It's so peaceful looking at unknown wrecks I totally zoned out and was wishing they'd had these laser cameras when titanic was found!! Lol
That could be the galley stove at 3:30.
Wow what incredible video and the music was amazing.
This is an epic find
At what depth is this wreck? A lot of information left out of this for sure....how about some more details.......identity of wreckage, approximate age, depth....etc.
Very fascinating, to say the least, anybody know the name of this wreck? Or how long it's been down there?
Just stumbled across this...amazing! The video so clear! Beautiful to look at. Thank you.
I think they have guesstimated early 1800's. That red plant like creature was sitting on top of small cache of what is believed to be muskets.
Awesome photography and content. Thank you
Published in 2012, any update to the ships identity?
Great footage, eerieely beautiful. It would be nice to have HD footage of that craft thing at the bottom of the Baltic sea. Mark.
Bottles is made early 19.centhury.1805-25.Also swords around 1800-1830.Outside wood on ships was metal,this technique begin after 1810.-20.
Love the music
.....would have loved to see this wreck 100 years ago, still somewhat intact.
3:13. A pistol or rifle you can see the trigger guard, trigger and what looks like the brass plates where the hammer and frizzen once were.
I use to be an antique bottle collector and those bottles appear to be from the 1850's through the 1860's.
Man it's in really good condition considering how long it's likely been there.
Wonderfull!!!....Truly wonderfull!...Thank you for this.
the sheathing is nailed metal all that is left of it . nice bottles w contents .. I might add ..
Thank you very much for sharing that with me. Amazing! Great job.
Amazing find!
Whoa! Lucky to get this much. Sand glasses, map compass all great info. Souvenirs too? The French had a ship wreck off the coast of Texas, but could be Spanish also?
Look at that gun at 3:13!
Excellent detail.
Great video really liked watching keep em coming
Perfect visibility on ocean floor to view shipwreck.
Hi definition makes all the difference. Nice.
Amazing Footage!
Any of the artifacts worth retrieving that might give a name to this shipwreck?
this is awsome waiting to see some ampules if anyone remembers the deep with nick nolte
Awesome footage
From the cannon, I thought it was an early wreck, but the various shaped bottles and the stove make me think early 1800s.
Thank you very much excellent video
hi! Great video! Beautiful quality. With so many amazing things, the one that stands out to me the most was the hour glass. wow
We are only ever passing through this world. One day we will all be forgotten.
Amazing video quality!
A very intriguing video I really liked it it stimulates lots of questions but there are no answers that come. Here’s a big one is this merely a dive for recreation or for historical record or does it go into a salvage operation where all of those artifacts are brought up there is no indication of any of this on the tape. I for one liked The haunting music throughout thought it was beautiful and I also thought it matched the subject matter with the long slow pan of the underwater camera on the wreckage nice job videographer!
Fantastic!!!
Were any articles recovered to Accurately Date the ship?
Love the music. The guitars.
Wonderful wreck. Awesome.
Ahhh I want the bottles
I would like to have those bottles. Really cool thanks for video.
From it's size, it might be small brig or schooner. The object at the very beginning appears to be a double block, part of a spar that rotted away. It appears to be iron-stropped, so that makes it early-to-mid-19th century. But there wouldn't have been guns mounted on a merchantman that late.The one conventional style cannon appears to be lying across a shorter range carronade, the latter typical of early 19th century ships. A third cannon underneath? Since the large number of bottles appear to be cargo, I'm wondering if this isn't an armed privateer or letter-of-marque/merchantman from the War-of-1812 (rare iron-stropped blocks not withstanding) or a Spanish man of war from the South American wars of independence in the 1820's. At 1:57 is the rudder head, also encased in copper. A musket trigger-guard is at 3:14. A sextant at 3:23. The stem-post at 4:34 with depth-of-forward-draught measurements nailed over the copper. Since guns and copper-sheathing were expensive, this vessel was special. Why were the three cannon so close together? Were they stacked in the hold, to lower the top-weight in preparation for the storm that killed them anyway?
Are there any plans to bring up these artifacts? I feel they should be preserved.
Amazing the size of the fasteners on the copper cladding
I had to watch this for school :)
Does anyone know the background song for this video?
Water clarity was exceptional.
All I can say is wow
At what depth does the ship lay? Thanks for the great video.
@3:12 is some sort of old firearm, you can clearly see the trigger guard.
From what I saw that is the remains of a British war ship from the seventeen hundreds. The bits of ship haul left had copper clad riveted to it. That is the same material that stopped the Turtle from sinking a British war ship in an American harbor during the Revolutionary war of 1776.
What music is playing in this video, very haunting with the ship wreck! Awesome
it would be nice to know what it was a wreck of.
Have you guys been able to identify the remains of the ship wreck yet?