Cursed Shipwreck Yields Treasure and Human Remains | National Geographic

mars sank during a fierce naval battle as you're descending down towards the wreck you're actually jumping into a time machine in this case 450 years back in time we think mars probably was the biggest warship of its time when it was built it was the legend surrounding the mars that actually got me intrigued as a young boy i wanted to find her and kind of see if the legend was true but it was also the challenge as it were to find the shipwreck that many other people had tried to find but actually failed it's a part of quite a long war it's called the seven year war where denmark and germany was fighting speeding together and it's about control of the baltic sea uh control over over over the trade and the baltic sea and the the power of the baltic sea mars is of course a ship but it's also a battlefield a frozen battlefield who went down just in the middle of this fight it was an explosion on board so the stem part was opening up so we think it went down very quick in order to find mars we use state-of-the-art side scan sooner systems so the wreck is resting at 250 feet in a remarkable state of preservation the coal and very dark water in the baltic sea preserves rex in a fantastic way so you can see all the details on the all the decorations on the gun and also the the court of arms of the king so the legend about mars does not only involve her size as a battleship it also involves big silver treasure a war treasure and i actually started to find traces of that treasure we have started to find silver coins we know that one of these silver coins this estimated value is 13 000 euros and since there are 220 000 of them according to the records it becomes quite a heap of coins and values we believe that more than 800 soldiers and sailors actually followed mars when she sank down to her grave so there's quite a few human remains down there making the wreck site even more eerie to dive you can see a lot of bones from these people down there so the bones are surrounded by the charcoal from from the fire and the impact from the cannon balls and so on so these people are laying right in this frozen battlefield i think that's quite an interesting part of this story also that we actually could study here battlefield from 1564. you

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Length: 3min 10sec (190 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 07 2014