Shipwrecks

Chronicle of death ships - a history of navigation. Currently, it is estimated American oceanographers, resting on the ocean floor at least one million ships.





Most of them died on the rocks and underwater reefs near the shore. Among them, the French ships "La Shamo" and "Telemachus" American "General Grant" British "Drummond Castle," "Royal Charter", "Liuting" and "Black Prince", Spanish "Florence" and "Nuestra Señora de Atocha" . This list goes on and on.





According to the US Hydrographic Office, from 1500 to the present day every year in the sea died in 2172 the average vessel. For each victim of shipwreck falls under different data from 2, 5 to 40 square kilometers of seabed.





XX century marked by major disasters in the submarine fleet. Suffice it to mention "Syurkuf" (France), "Tethys" (UK), "Thresher" (USA), the "Dakar" (Israel), "Komsomolets" (USSR). The death of these submarines is fraught with many mysteries.