Imagine stumbling upon history while just enjoying a day on the water! A father and daughter recently discovered a 154-year-old shipwreck completely by accident, uncovering secrets frozen in time. Join us as we dive into the story of this incredible find, explore what life was like aboard the ship, and reveal the mysteries hidden beneath the waves. You won’t believe what they found preserved for over a century! Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/
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00:00So a father and his 6-year-old daughter were out fishing on Lake Michigan
00:03when they found something way bigger than the regular fish they were after.
00:09Their boat's sonar picked up a strange object on the lake floor.
00:13The girl, Henley, thought maybe it was just an octopus playing around.
00:17But her father, Tim, had a feeling it was a shipwreck.
00:21He shared sonar images of their finds with some Facebook groups.
00:25Maritime archaeologists got interested in the post,
00:28and now they believe that Tim and Henley may have discovered the wreck of the George L. Newman,
00:34a ship that sank over 150 years ago during the Great Peshtigo Fire.
00:39They found confirmation of the shipwreck in the archives
00:42and convinced the authorities to check it out using a remotely operated vehicle.
00:47It captured good quality photos and videos of the wreck and backed up the theory.
00:52The George L. Newman was a 122-foot-long sailing ship called a Barkentine.
00:58Shipbuilder Benjamin Flint finished it in Black River, Ohio, in 1855.
01:04Barkentines were really handy because you could sail them with a smaller crew than other ships of the time.
01:09On the day it sank, the George L. Newman was hauling lumber from Little Suamico, Wisconsin.
01:15At the same time, the Great Peshtigo Fire started as a small brush fire,
01:20probably caused by railroad workers clearing land for train tracks.
01:24It multiplied in size and burnt over a huge territory and wiped out the city of Peshtigo in about an hour
01:31and took 16 other towns.
01:33The flames even jumped over the waters of Green Bay.
01:37The fumes from that massive fire were so thick, the crew of the George L. Newman couldn't see anything.
01:43The ship ran aground near the southeast point at Green Island.
01:46The local lighthouse keeper managed to rescue the crew.
01:51They stayed at the lighthouse for a week and tried to save whatever they could from the stranded ship.
01:56At some point, they gave up and left it behind.
02:00Over the years, sand buried the wreck and people mostly forgot about it until Tim and Henley stumbled across it.
02:07It was sitting at just 10 feet of water.
02:09Probably the shifting sand in the area made it more noticeable.
02:14Yep, equipment is the key when it comes to some really exciting discoveries,
02:18like sonars the family had or, say, a metal detector.
02:22Eight-year-old Lucas Atchison also got lucky, but with his birthday gift, a metal detector.
02:29Yeah!
02:30He was hoping to find some treasure on a beach, but instead, the boy found a steel spike during a family trip in Ontario.
02:38The boy's father told him it was just a basic spike used to tie boats.
02:43But Lucas was super curious and insisted they dig deeper.
02:47That's how they found the spike was stuck in a piece of wood with more spikes attached.
02:52They knew it was a real shipwreck.
02:55The boy's father informed the park staff and a local volunteer group that investigates shipwrecks.
03:01They got the right permissions, brought their shovels to the site, and uncovered more pieces of the mystery ship.
03:07The team found double frames, which pointed to a well-built vessel, most likely a schooner, a wooden sailing ship with two or more masts.
03:16Volunteers plan to create scaled drawings of the wreck, including both top-down and side views.
03:21They'll study 19th-century ship insurance records to help figure out the ship's age.
03:27Details like how many spikes should be used and how far apart they had to be are clues that can help date the wreck.
03:33It's almost certain that the ship is the St. Anthony, a schooner that tragically wrecked in 1856 in Lake Huron.
03:42At the time of the accident, it was carrying wheat from Chicago to Buffalo.
03:46Just a month later, a tugboat called the Fashion was heading to help the stranded St. Anthony, but ended up getting stuck too.
03:57What?
03:57The St. Anthony was still stuck, and her wheat cargo had spilled through the bottom of the ship.
04:03People still thought they could rescue the vessel, but clearly they never did.
04:06Looks like Lucas was the first person to find it over 160 years later.
04:12Now, volunteers plan to bury it again to protect it in an anaerobic environment without oxygen, so no parasites or organisms can damage the wreck.
04:22It should help preserve the ship's structure for history for at least another 50 years.
04:27Another metal detectorist, Cameron Anderson from Scotland, found all three pieces of a 4,000-year-old axe head buried on his family's farm.
04:37He has been looking for treasures for about 20 years, but he never found anything of this importance before.
04:44Cameron was out in one of his fields when he got a strong signal from his brand-new metal detector, which was a Christmas gift from his wife.
04:51He started digging and got nothing, but then the detector pinged again, loud and clear.
04:58He dug deeper into sandy soil and found a chunk of bronze shaped just like an axe head.
05:04He knew it was something ancient, so he came back the next day and started sweeping the same field again, but this time at the opposite end.
05:12That's when he found the second piece of the axe.
05:15At that point, he realized one shard was still missing.
05:19Tracking down the third part was like hunting for a needle in a haystack, but Cameron managed to do it.
05:25He contacted some experts, and they confirmed it was an early Bronze Age flat axe head from a time when humans were just starting to ditch stone tools for metal.
05:35These kinds of axes were considered super valuable and prestigious at the time.
05:40Experts think someone might have intentionally broken it into three parts and buried it, possibly as a sacrifice or ritual offering.
05:48Finds like this open up new facts about our distant past, so the axe is super important for science.
05:55A mining company worker looking for diamonds along the coast of Namibia accidentally found something way older.
06:03There were some blocks of copper, some wood, pipes, and elephant tusks.
06:08The miner and his colleagues called for an archaeologist, who soon realized it wasn't a disturbed beach like they thought, but a shipwreck.
06:18It was sitting there for almost 500 years.
06:21All evidence showed that it was a Portuguese trading vessel, Bom Jesus, that went missing in the 16th century.
06:27Experts believe the Portuguese built ships like this to take their explorers on long trips to distant places, like India, China, and Japan, and come back with tons of cargo.
06:39The Bom Jesus was most likely traveling, filled to the brim with treasures from Lisbon, Portugal, to western India.
06:46But on its way back around the southern tip of Africa, near Namibia, a big storm pushed it too close to the shore.
06:53The ship hit a rock, tipped over, broke apart, and sank.
06:57The ship was split into three sections and incredibly well-preserved, thanks to its own hull and thick layers of sand that covered it and prevented rot.
07:08Archaeologists who studied the wreck discovered over 40 tons of cargo.
07:12There were cannons, swords, blocks of metal like lead and tin, fabrics, and tools that sailors used to navigate the stars while traveling across the ocean.
07:22The most exciting discovery was 1,845 copper ingots, weighing as much as 16 to 17 tons altogether.
07:32Those copper ingots, or pieces of pure metal, are still in great condition because the hull of the ship protected them from the ocean water.
07:40There were also 105 enormous elephant tusks, weighing about 2 tons.
07:46Those were probably supposed to become luxury items, like jewelry or carvings at the destination.
07:51Archaeologists took some DNA samples from the tusks and found that they came from West African forests and savannah elephants.
08:00All the treasures from the shipwreck are worth over $13 million because the ship was in a restricted diamond mining area.
08:08No bad guys could get their hands on all these treasures for years.
08:12That's it for today.
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