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RE: Archaeologists Think They Have Found the Wreck of The Santa Maria
May 13, 2014 at 11:57 am
I hope they manage to get the remains out of the water and put them on display.
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RE: Archaeologists Think They Have Found the Wreck of The Santa Maria
May 13, 2014 at 12:01 pm
Close enough for government work.
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RE: Archaeologists Think They Have Found the Wreck of The Santa Maria
May 13, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Why are they wasting time on this when we still haven't found Noah's ark???!??!??!
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RE: Archaeologists Think They Have Found the Wreck of The Santa Maria
May 13, 2014 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2014 at 12:34 pm by SteelCurtain.)
When I was in FL in March they had the hand made replicas of the Nina and the Pinta at Ponce Inlet in New Smyrna Beach. No modern tools were used building them. It was really cool. I didn't realize it cost $8 until we were on board. I was kinda pissed until I talked with the crew. They are all volunteers, sailing adventure style with the two boats. It sounded like a lot of fun. I had an impulse to be irresponsible and sign up!
There was a certain cognitive dissonance that I experienced. My whole life, I had this idea of these huge Spanish Galleons that Columbus mightily sailed across the Atlantic with. I don't know where it came from, and I certainly know enough about history to know that there were no huge ships then. But my internal image of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria are these majestic ships.
They are not. Standing on the Nina, it was this tiny little caravel. 65 feet long. Crew slept on the deck. A tiller for a rudder. The Pinta is slightly larger, but not by much. Columbus hated the Santa Maria, he said it sailed like a pig. It, too, was a tiny little nao, a trading vessel.
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RE: Archaeologists Think They Have Found the Wreck of The Santa Maria
May 13, 2014 at 12:41 pm
Even Nelson's Victory, one of the largest ships in the world 300 years after Columbus, and home to a crew of 800, was still unbelieveably small to modern maritime sensibilities.
The victory was only as long as a typical modern big containership is wide.
