Nearly 190 years later, experts say it's still the only whaler known to have gone down in the Gulf of Mexico.
Scientists on ship and shore explore the wreck of what they believed to be an historic 19th century whaler. Video courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2022 ROV and Mapping Shakedown
Researchers checking out odd shapes during undersea scanning work on the sandy ocean floor believe they've finally found the shipwreck about 70 miles offshore from Pascagoula, Mississippi. It was documented in February by remotely operated robots in about 6,000 feet of water. "The Gulf is an undersea museum of some incredibly well-preserved wrecks," said Delgado of SEARCH Inc., who a few years ago helped identify the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, in muddy river waters just north of Mobile, Alabama.
"There were a whole series of regulations and laws so that if a crew came into a Southern port and there were a large number of mixed-raced or African American crew members on board, the ship was impounded and the crew members were taken into custody until it left," said Blake, president of the New Bedford Historical Society in Massachusetts. Black crew members also could be abducted and enslaved, she said.
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