Show Notes
This Week in Shipwrecks is the weekly maritime news series of Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs. This week's stories:
Rescuers race against time after the Virgo Transport 8 ferry capsizes in the Java Sea.
Cádiz port dredging turns up 27 cannons and a stash of silver.
New horrors surface from the 1629 wreck of the Batavia
Lake Michigan diver's body found
Archaelogists glean information from historic Bronze Age shipwreck
Sunken German U-Boat leaking TNT off the coast of Denmark
Mystic Seaport Museum announces it Maritime Trades and Foodways Day, scheduled for Saturday, September 26.
Written, edited, and produced by Rich Napolitano. All show notes, episodes, and transcripts can be found at shipwrecksandseadogs.com.
Original theme music by Sean Sigfried, and you can find him at seansigfried.com.
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