The effort to find the century-old shipwreck involves a lot of research and an arsenal of sonar equipment and aerial drones, plus a magnetometer.
ByResearcher Shawn Dilles examines a photo of a site where the Star of Bengal may have wrecked.
The Star of Bengal was an iron-hulled, 270-foot cannery vessel that went down in a storm in 1908, killing more than 100 people. Most of them were cannery workers from China, Japan and the Philippines. Decker said he became interested in shipwreck diving over the course of his 38 years as a commercial harvest diver.
and headed for the site of the wreck. The crew also includes marine archaeologist Jenya Anichenko, writer and visual artist Tessa Hulls, artist and musician Ray Troll, researcher Shawn Dilles, remote sensing specialist Sean Adams, and Endeavour owners Patsy Clark Urschel and Bill Urschel. “You’re not going to get as detailed or a high definition targets and the smaller targets are not going to show up as well,” Adams said. “But it seems to be a very good magnetometer. This is kind of a new use for it — an experimental test.”
Three images seemingly show different sites, all said to be the site of the wreck of the Star of Bengal.
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