This Ship Sank in the Baltic Sea With Presents Bound for a Romanov Czar. Its Cargo Included Champagne, Luxury Mineral Water and Rare Meteorites
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In the summer of 2024, a pair of Polish divers surveying a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea stumbled upon a clay bottle bearing a stamp with the word “Nassau.” At first, Pawel Truszynski and Marek Cacaj theorized that their find was a jug of rum linked to the infamous Caribbean pirates who had dominated Nassau (now the capital of the Bahamas) some 300 years ago. After consulting a ceramics expert, however, the men learned that the Nassau in question was actually the city in western Germany.
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In the summer of 2024, a pair of Polish divers surveying a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea stumbled upon a clay bottle bearing a stamp with the word “Nassau.” At first, Pawel Truszynski and Marek Cacaj theorized that their find was a jug of rum linked to the infamous Caribbean pirates who had dominated Nassau (now the capital of the Bahamas) some 300 years ago. After consulting a ceramics expert, however, the men learned that the Nassau in question was actually the city in western Germany. As for the jug’s contents, the bottle held luxury mineral water, not rum. Over the past two years, Truszynski’s quest to uncover the shipwreck’s story has taken him to archives across Europe, a Champagne house in France and back to the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
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- In the summer of 2024, a pair of Polish divers surveying a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea stumbled upon a clay bottle bearing a stamp with the word “Nassau.” At first, Pawel Truszynski and Marek Cacaj theorized that their find was a jug of rum linked to the infamous Caribbean pirates who had dominated Nassau (now the capital of the Bahamas) some 300 years ago. After consulting a ceramics expert, however, the men learned that the Nassau in question was actually the city in western Germany.
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This Ship Sank in the Baltic Sea With Presents Bound for a Romanov Czar. Its Cargo Included Champagne, Luxury Mineral Water and Rare Meteorites
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