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I think there will always be compelling stories to be told and people will continue to be curious. And as long as that happens and there is support for that, I think exploration will continue to happen. It’s not just lost treasures. It’s what it all speaks to in terms of mapping the human heart.

bus (one of two historic ships British ex- plorer Sir John Franklin sailed to ? nd the

Norwest Passage in 1845; Franklin and his crew eventually died after the ships became ice-locked) to Hunley (an Amer- ican Civil War submarine that made his- tory as being the ? rst sub to sink a war ship; her crew and the vessel disappeared shortly afterward). As the rust continues to be cleared away, the sub continues to be revealed as it once looked, telling us even more about this amazingly sophisti- cated early submarine lost in 1864.

How much more is there we don’t know about shipwrecks?

We still don’t have the very earli- est ships. We still haven’t gained a re- ally clear sense of a fair amount of this when you consider that so much of our history is intertwined with the seas, the lakes and the rivers. The Uluburun (late

The “smoking gun” on the wreck

Bronze Age) shipwreck has evidence of of USS Conestoga, a single-pur- 12 different cultures within it, from equa- pose 3-inch/50 cal. naval ri? e, torial Africa to the Baltic, all connected lies dislodged and inside the ship.

over 3,300 years ago by maritime trade.

I think that in time we will understand more of what’s in the oceans. I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon. But I think the fact that discover- ies are made, sometimes in people’s own backyards, is a reminder that not every- thing is done, that there are achieve- ments yet to be made. And for young people in particular, that they can make ® a difference, that discovery can happen.

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versality of our experience as human be- ings – that we suffer loss, that we prevail and we also experience triumph. I think shipwrecks speak to all of that. I think there will always be compelling stories to be told and people will continue to be curious. And as long as that happens and there is support for that, I think explora- tion will continue to happen. It’s not just

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