Unidentified Object Mapped

The Ocean Explorer team conducted between 11th June and 19th June 2011 together with Franskabolaget.com a search expedition to find more of the sunken treasures of the Sea of Bothnia (northern Baltic Sea). However, on the 19th June a very strange anomaly was found during a sonar survey of the sea floor. Peter Lindberg, initiator of the expeditions, says that he has never seen anything like it even if he has spent hundreds of hours watching sonar images of the sea floor. 

 

It was found at a depth of 87m. "It is not in our sphere of interest to go for this object since the cost for each hour out on the sea are tremendous" he says, "Since it might be nothing we can not afford spending funds just to have a look at it, even if it might be a "new" Stonehenge standing on the bottom.

The regular treasures consist of alcoholic beverages such as Champagne, Wine and Cognac laying in the holds of small Swedish merchant ships sunken by the Germans during the first world war.

 

The most famous wreck so far is without doubt the small ketch "Jönköping" which was sunk on the 3rd November 1916 by the German Uboat U 22 with 3,000 bottles of Heidsieck & Co MONOPOLE Gôut Américain champagne from 1907, and 67 barrels of Bisquite & Duboché Cognac, each barrel containing 600 litres in her holds. Some of the champagne bottles has been sold for as much as EUR20,000 per bottle.

 

This year's first search/salvage expedition was granted with for the season terrible weather which did the search nearly impossible and is a reason why the Ocean Explorer team will continue the search for the "fluid gold" later during this summer.

Ocean Explorer off course welcomes every approach of interest regarding the strange anomaly. The researchers will go out again soon to document and film the object.