Unexpected Find for Marine Archaeologists in Gulf of Mexico
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A team of marine archaeologists — led by Fritz Hanselmann, a researcher at the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University — has discovered two 19th-century sunken vessels while exploring their main target, a shipwreck lying nearly three-quarters of a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, The Associated Press reports. The team used remote-controlled devices to recover artifacts from the main shipwreck site that will help researchers unearth more information about the ships' identities.
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