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With the help of a childhood friend, a resourceful crew, and some nifty robots, Jeff Hummel has seemingly discovered the site of a long-lost shipwreck.

No one has laid claim to any of the 4,000 ounces of gold believed to be on board a ship that sank off of the B.C. coast in 1875.

The CPR’s glass negatives of an 1875 survey were recovered a couple of weeks after the sinking of the SS Pacific.

The SS Dix, a commuter ferry that brought people to Seattle, was lost in 1906 and sank so deep that none of the victims were ever recovered.

A groundbreaking discovery was just made here in Puget Sound, shedding new light on Seattle’s greatest maritime tragedy. For more than a century, people have searched for the long-lost steamship. Just this week, a local group of explorers revealed they had found it.

The SS Dix was part of the "Mosquito Fleet" carrying passengers across Puget Sound. It sunk in 1906 after colliding with another vessel.

Recovery of material lost in the 1875 wreck of the SS "Pacific," which carried considerable gold, is developing as cooperative efforts are planned to identify where to best focus reclaimation attempts.

Doom, “death clad in all its hideousness” rode the decks of the steamer Pacific on its voyage in the fall of 1875, said James A. Gibbe in his book “Shipwrecks of the Pacific …

TODAY IN B.C.: Ship wrecked during B.C. gold rush found off Washington State

TODAY IN B.C.: Ship wrecked during B.C. gold rush found off Washington State