Wreck protection

摘要

During the dark hours of an early summer night thieves worked quickly on the site, blowing a large hole in the seafloor with their propwash deflector. Exposing the pile of cannon, anchors and other wreckage their target had been laid open like a wound and was ready for looting. Lift bags or a derrick cable broke two of the guns away from their 235-year-old resting place and loaded them onto a boat. Only weeks later did divers from the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP) in St Augustine, Florida, encounter the looted site and report the theft to local and state authorities.