Project aims to preserve shipwrecks scattered off shore Flordia
These are the shipwrecks whose remains lie scattered like busted skeletons on the sea floor off South Florida. In Broward County, officials aim to locate and chart their number, which they say could top 30, but any treasure they tally will be in terms of the wrecks' cultural, historical and recreational value.
"You've got a whole cross-section of Florida maritime history out there off the beach," said state underwater archaeologist Roger Smith. "There's anything from colonial shipwrecks all the way to modern vessels."
Water-logged calling cards from the past, Broward's shipwrecks include a pre-Civil War slave trader and, reportedly, a World War II Nazi submarine sunk in combat.
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"You've got a whole cross-section of Florida maritime history out there off the beach," said state underwater archaeologist Roger Smith. "There's anything from colonial shipwrecks all the way to modern vessels."
Water-logged calling cards from the past, Broward's shipwrecks include a pre-Civil War slave trader and, reportedly, a World War II Nazi submarine sunk in combat.