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Ancient Voyages to America – Who Were The First Explorers? (Full Documentary)

July 23, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Featured Image: Map of the world by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis, drawn in 1513.Only half of the original map survives and is held at the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul.The map synthesizes information from twenty maps, including one drawn by Christopher Columbus of the New World. CREDIT: Piri Reis (circa  – circa ) SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain).

From youtube uploaded by  HistoricalDoc

Published on Apr 22, 2013

Who were the first people to discover America? Historical evidence uncovers the myth of Christopher Columbus being the first to America. This documentary explores the evidence of Ancient Civilizations visiting North America long before Columbus. Chinese, Egyptian, Viking explorers all traveled to the New World.

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Explorers raise the bar — 1,574 silver ones — in WW II shipwreck (W/Video)

July 21, 2013 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Featured image: Silver bullion bar 1000 oz top view. CREDIT: Unit 5 SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons. ( This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license).

From New York Daily News BY  SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2013, 5:54 AM

Odyssey Marine Exploration just finished a record-setting recovery effort in the North Atlantic, pulling 1,574 silver ingots from the wreck of merchant ship SS Gairsoppa three miles below the choppy seas. The total value is expected to rise more than $35 million.

The mournful tale of the SS Gairsoppa stood unchanged for seven decades — sunk by a German U-boat, 84 people killed, its fortune in silver bars forever lost to the Atlantic Ocean.

There’s a new ending now — with a twist long considered impossible. . . . Read Complete Report.

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From youtube uploaded by Russ Balbirona on Sep 27, 2011

RETRO:  SS Gairsoppa WWII Ship Sunk By German Submarine Odyssey Marine Found The Silver Treasure

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Did a LITTLE DEEPER ~ THEI Archives: Treasure and Western Adventure”
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Caves of the World #1 – Israeli Cave Explorers Return from Record-Breaking Expedition in Abkhazia of ‘Everest of the Caves’ (w/video)

September 6, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / One comment

from Science Daily

ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2012) — Cavers from the cave research unit of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have just returned from exploring the deepest cave in the world. The cave, known as Krubera-Voronya, is considered the “Everest of the caves” and is in Abkhazia in the south of Russia near the Black Sea.

The cavers, Boaz Langford, Leonid Fagin, Vladimir Buslov and Yuval Elmaliach, went on the exploration mission as part of an international delegation organized by the Ukrainian Speleological Association. Cave explorers from nine countries were part of the mission, including those from Russia, Spain, Britain and Lebanon. . . . Read complete Report

from youtube

Krubera Voronya cave: dive through Kvitochka

Uploaded by  on Sep 17, 2010

Documentary footage of 3 Lithuanian speleologists (Saulė Pankienė, Gintautas Švedas, Aidas Gudaitis) and 1 cave diver (Vytis Vilkas) diving through “Kvitochka” siphon and getting to siphon “Dva Kapitana” in Krubera Voronya cave, 2010 August. Dive through siphon takes about 4 minutes, but it’s cropped as it’s not very informative due to poor visibility.

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