# Stunning imagery of Black Sea shipwrecks

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 14, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-imagery-of-black-sea-shipwrecks/772000 "2016-11-14T20:51:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-imagery-of-black-sea-shipwrecks/772000/1 "2016-11-14T20:51:30Z")

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The Black Sea’s waters are anoxic, and the sea was heavily traversed since antiquity. So there are lots of amazing shipwrecks on the bottom. [Behold the wonders revealed](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/shipwrecks-black-sea-archaeology.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1)by underwater robots and some clever imaging techniques. The detail is amazing, and some of those ships look like they went down last week, rather than 1,000 years ago.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-imagery-of-black-sea-shipwrecks/772000/2 "2016-11-15T01:47:57Z")

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IIRC, the deep sea environment there is conducive to preservation of such artifacts.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-imagery-of-black-sea-shipwrecks/772000/3 "2016-11-15T02:04:08Z")

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Awesome pics and a fantastic article to boot! Thanks for linking this, **lisiate**.

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**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-imagery-of-black-sea-shipwrecks/772000/4 "2016-11-15T07:39:47Z")

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The details really are amazing aren’t they?

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-imagery-of-black-sea-shipwrecks/772000/5 "2016-11-15T07:50:05Z")

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Aye, but to be honest, I think the article has more interesting details than the images do. Those are awesome, and awe-inspiring, but the info about the ships, the sea and the way they were found is what interests me the most. (I have some background in archeology and anthropology.)

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stunning-imagery-of-black-sea-shipwrecks/772000/6 "2016-11-15T11:43:38Z")

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Very cool - thanks for sharing.