A thousand shipwrecked stories call from a Baltic seabed
SOURCE: AFP (11-29-10)
HELSINKI (AFP) – Riikka Alvik rests her chin in her palm as she imagines the last terrifying moments of the life of a 13-year-old girl trapped in a cabin on the St. Mikael as it mysteriously sank in the icy Baltic.
"We found her skeleton," says Alvik, a marine archaeologist and curator with Finland's National Board of Antiquities.
"She never got out. Think of the panic she felt as the cabin filled with icy water -- it was November, after all."
November 1747, that is....
"We found her skeleton," says Alvik, a marine archaeologist and curator with Finland's National Board of Antiquities.
"She never got out. Think of the panic she felt as the cabin filled with icy water -- it was November, after all."
November 1747, that is....
Source:
AFP
Source URL:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101129/ts_afp/finlandarchaeologyculturehistory_20101129170318
Date:
11-29-10
