Deepest Wreck Currently Under Excavation in U.S. Waters: Silent Cannon




Photograph courtesy NOAA

A cannon sits 4,330 feet (1,300 meters) down on the seafloor amidst the remains of the Monterey shipwreck.

Although cannons aren't the only weapons archaeologists have found—muskets manufactured in England were also on board—experts are unsure whether the 84-foot-long (25-meter-long) vessel was a warship, a privateer, or passenger ship.




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