Find A Medieval Ship On The Largest Norwegian Lake
A medieval shipwreck was found at the bottom of Lake Miosa, which is one of the largest lakes in Norway, and is in almost perfect condition.
Scientists assume that the ship was built after 1300 AD. It sank at the beginning of the 19th century.
The researchers discovered the wreck during the implementation of the "Miusa mission" project, which aims to map the bottom of the lake of 363 square kilometers using high-resolution "sonar" technology.
The Norwegian Ministry of Defense Research Foundation took over the task after two years of conducting numerous remotely operated vehicle inspections of lake areas where large quantities of munitions had been dumped.
The lake is a source of drinking water for approximately 100,000 people in Norway, according to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, so these munitions posed a health hazard.
The researchers spotted the wreck of the ship while scanning the lake using the sonar device, and the “Musa Mission” project aims to map the bottom of the lake to discover the dangerous munitions dumped in it.
Photographs showed the wreckage of the ship, which lies at a depth of 411 meters, and was documented through “sonar”, a system that uses sound pulses to detect and measure the area under the water’s surface.
Photographs also revealed that the ship was 10 meters long.
It seems that this ship was built using a technique in which the hull panels overlap each other, and this method was used during the Viking Age as a way to make ships lighter and more powerful.
The fresh water environment and the lack of wave activity at this depth kept the ship in its original condition, except for the erosion of some iron nails at its ends.
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