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Crews removed the Cape Ray shipwreck from the water Sunday evening, around two months after it suddenly appeared along Newfoundland's southwestern tip.
The shipwreck that mysteriously washed up in Cape Ray earlier this year is a phenomenon that grasped the attention of people across the world, and it especially captivated Joan Scott.
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Some were fabled vessels that have fascinated people for generations, like Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915. Some were common workhorses that faded into the depths, like the Ironton, a barge that was carrying 1,000 tons of grain when it sank in Lake Huron in 1894. No matter their place in history, more shipwrecks are being found these days than ever before, according to those who work in the rarefied world of deep-sea exploration. “More are being found, and
The race to preserve a washed-up shipwreck in Cape Ray is still on. Folks have secured the wreck on the beach, and it's mostly out of the water. Neil Burgess of the N.L. Shipwreck Preservation Society gives us his take on what could happen next.