Andrey Bobkov
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In June 2008 our diving club members launched an expedition to Krugobaikal Railway (Circum Baikal Railway). We knew that this was the site of many train crashes and launched [the expedition] for this reason. As a result of the search, we ran across the sunken ship, the discovery was a complete surprise.
This is an article about the event, published on-line by RIA Novosti and X-Ray Mag:
ŵhe ship, thought to have been built in the late 18th or early 19th century, was found in the southern part of the lake at the depth of around 30 meters.
The vessel's hull, constructed without iron nails, is 16 m (52 feet) long, 5 m (16 feet) wide and 4 m (13 feet) deep. There is a hole in the right side of the hull and divers believe the ship sank during a storm.
They also discovered suspected human remains.
The expedition to the depths of the world's deepest and oldest lake was organized to search for historic artifacts linked with the Krugobaikal Railway, which saw numerous train crashes in the 19th century.
The two Russian Mir-1 and Mir-2 deep-sea submersibles performed a series of 52 dives into the lake, including last week when they searched the lakebed for sacks of gold taken from the Imperial Russian reserves by the White Army's Admiral Alexander Kolchak when fleeing from the Bolsheviks in the winter of 1919-1920.
Some of the White Army officers reputedly froze on the ice as temperatures dropped to 60 degrees Celsius below zero, and the gold is thought to have sunk when the spring thaw came. However, no treasure, except boxes containing ammunition dating back to 1920s, was discovered.
We would like to make a statement with regard to the mentioned ÅÉuman remains this is a pure trick of journalists to attract more publicity to the article, by hinting at some gory secret of the mysterious death. Nobody of the club members has ever mentioned such a thing to pressmen. They are good at inventing ÅÄurious details, as we can see.
What we did find was a glass bottle with a stamp, denoting it was made in Moscow. The bottle served as a vinegar container and dates back to the late 18th century.
Not so long ago we found a copper bowl in the Baikal waters (in the area of Listvyanka village). As we have recently found out the vessel dates back to the 16th century. Just the same design bowl is on display at Taltsi open-air wooden architecture museum located on the Angara River bank, about 11 km away from Listvyanka.
Besides, we regularly find old coins (one of the most recent ones was minted in 1769), plates and ceramic household utensils (some are quite intact, others are in pieces) having a two-headed eagle (the symbol of Tsarist Russia) stamps.
We are planning to make an on-line exhibition of the findings on our diving club web-site.
This is an article about the event, published on-line by RIA Novosti and X-Ray Mag:
ŵhe ship, thought to have been built in the late 18th or early 19th century, was found in the southern part of the lake at the depth of around 30 meters.
The vessel's hull, constructed without iron nails, is 16 m (52 feet) long, 5 m (16 feet) wide and 4 m (13 feet) deep. There is a hole in the right side of the hull and divers believe the ship sank during a storm.
They also discovered suspected human remains.
The expedition to the depths of the world's deepest and oldest lake was organized to search for historic artifacts linked with the Krugobaikal Railway, which saw numerous train crashes in the 19th century.
The two Russian Mir-1 and Mir-2 deep-sea submersibles performed a series of 52 dives into the lake, including last week when they searched the lakebed for sacks of gold taken from the Imperial Russian reserves by the White Army's Admiral Alexander Kolchak when fleeing from the Bolsheviks in the winter of 1919-1920.
Some of the White Army officers reputedly froze on the ice as temperatures dropped to 60 degrees Celsius below zero, and the gold is thought to have sunk when the spring thaw came. However, no treasure, except boxes containing ammunition dating back to 1920s, was discovered.
We would like to make a statement with regard to the mentioned ÅÉuman remains this is a pure trick of journalists to attract more publicity to the article, by hinting at some gory secret of the mysterious death. Nobody of the club members has ever mentioned such a thing to pressmen. They are good at inventing ÅÄurious details, as we can see.
What we did find was a glass bottle with a stamp, denoting it was made in Moscow. The bottle served as a vinegar container and dates back to the late 18th century.
Not so long ago we found a copper bowl in the Baikal waters (in the area of Listvyanka village). As we have recently found out the vessel dates back to the 16th century. Just the same design bowl is on display at Taltsi open-air wooden architecture museum located on the Angara River bank, about 11 km away from Listvyanka.
Besides, we regularly find old coins (one of the most recent ones was minted in 1769), plates and ceramic household utensils (some are quite intact, others are in pieces) having a two-headed eagle (the symbol of Tsarist Russia) stamps.
We are planning to make an on-line exhibition of the findings on our diving club web-site.
