The cargo of a ship that sank near Sweden in the 19th century also contained mineral water.
Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast that was “loaded to the brim” champagne.
The Guardian reports.
A team from Poland was diving in the Baltic Sea 20 nautical miles (37 km) south of the island of Öland last week when they accidentally found a boat that was probably a merchant ship.
The salty waters of the Baltic, home to an estimated 100,000 shipwrecks, are a hot spot for divers, marine archaeologists and, more recently, looters.
Divers counted about 100 bottles of champagne in the ship's hold, as well as china and mineral water water.
“The entire sunken ship is completely loaded with cases of champagne, mineral water and porcelain,” Tomasz Stachura, leader of the Baltictech diving group, told AFP. “I've been diving for 40 years and it often happens that there's one bottle or two… Finding a sunken ship with that much cargo is a first for me.”
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