What is the ship?

and Shipwreck may apply either to the event of a destroyed ship or to the physical wreck itself. Throughout the naval history, the ship occurred and it is likely that millions have died. The United Nations estimates that there are 3 million ships on the bottom of the ocean around the world. Some of them have become a first -class diving places, because many marine organisms obscure the shipwreck if it doesn't matter. Some of the well -known ships are very old, including Greek merchant ships from 400 BC, Phoenic ships dating back to 1200 BC and the Levantin ship from 1400 BC, late bronze period.

There has been many famous ship in history, and there are many atolls with dozens, not hundreds, in the ruins in their shallows. The wrecks happen for any number of reasons, usually in storms, running agriculture from poor navigation or for enemy attacks during the war. Probably the most famous wreck in history is thms Titanic , 882 ft (269 m) a luxury cruise ship that sank in the northern Atlantic after the glacier. The ship killed 1,500 people and the ship dropped about 2.5 miles (4 km) to the bottom of the ocean. Many years later, in 1982, Titanic was photographed and investigated on a place remotely operated by a deep sea submarine. The idea of ​​lifting the wreck back to the surface was regularly discussed, but making efforts would probably require hundreds of millions of dollars.

Studies of old ships and other sunken artifacts are the whole discipline known as maritime archeology. Studying ancient ships can provide us with a lot of information about lost civilization and preserve cultural objects that would have long been looted and consumed or dismantled if they stay on earth. One of the most famous objects from the ancient ship, Antykyter mechanism, is in fact the first known mechanical computer and was used to calculateCycles of the Sun, Moon and Planets. The accuracy and complexity of the gears are considered to be the same as a watch of the 17th century and mechanisms of similar complexity do not appear in the archaeological record only more than 1000 years later.

Some artifacts that have been discovered from shipwrecking from antiquity include large amounts of gold, Egyptian ebenies for furniture, ostrich eggs, amber, Newered glass, various resins for perfume or incense, ivory blood vessels, stands, and hundreds of hundreds of other objects. Many of these fascinating findings can now be found in museums around the world.