A mysterious shipwreck suddenly appeared on a sandy beach in Newfoundland, Canada, last month and is believed to have been dislodged from the seabed by a severe storm.
The wreck, lying in shallow water near the small town of Cape Ray, was discovered by a local resident on the morning of January 20.
Now, as a new storm approaches eastern Canada, the community is in a race against time to save it.
As soon as Shawn Bath and Trevor Croft, both from the Clean Harbors Initiative, heard this, they grabbed their scuba gear and rushed to the beach. Swimming around the boat, they tried to secure it by running ropes around its 100-foot frame.
Both men have been working in the area for two years as part of a coastal cleanup operation after Hurricane Fiona, which hit Canada’s Atlantic coast in 2022 as one of the most powerful storms in the country’s history.
Bath believes it was Hurricane Fiona that initially dislodged the wreck, before it drifted slowly towards the southwest coastline of the island of Newfoundland, pushed by the storms.
Now, as a new storm approaches, the community tries to stop the ship from being destroyed by the same elements that brought it to their shores.
The Cape Ray wreck is an example of a wider phenomenon, experts say, where storms fueled by climate change are revealing the world’s underwater history but also… destroying it.
Source: CNN
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