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Old 12-17-2006, 05:31 PM   #11
Wombat
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Originally Posted by DanaC
Awesome plane!. I love how the Sea preserves stuff. Puts me in mind of the Marie Rose.
Yeah, but there's only a few rotted bits of wood left of that ship. How about this one: the Vasa, raised from the seabed in Sweden. It sank in 1628, only one century later than the Mary Rose sank. It is so well preserved because of the cold briny water in the Stockholm area.
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