https://www.dogonews.com/2018/11/11...discovered-in-black-sea-dates-back-2400-years
Things have moved on since the Vasa and Mary Rose ...... and this wreck is relatively intact on the surface so maybe costs could be more moderate than some early estimates ..... which all boil down to what technique is employed to dismantle or lift this historic maritime ‘jewel’ .....
We have a unique opportunity here .... let’s not delay on this extraction. We have the abilities to preserve these ship’s timbers on the surface. Trying to tackle this later when the timber state is even more fragile ..... is that wise?
Three thoughts.
1) Its an interesting wreck because of its age, but not sure its near as important as you seem to be making it. Its 75 foot old greek ship, which may have almost nothing aboard. It could cost 100s of millions or more to carry out a salvage that the ship might not survive.
2) Where does the ship go if it were salvaged? Obviously if the map is correct its closest to Bulgaria, but salvaging a Greek ship is likely to get the Greeks involved as well as we know from the Mercedes salvage of a few years ago when Spain was granted the treasure despite it not being found in Spanish waters.
3) 2017 was a banner year for Submersibles with almost 30 of them sold. HOWEVER, there are about a dozen submersibles on the planet that can do 2KM+ depth, most of them do 300 feet, 500 feet, 1000 feet, the real expensive ones do 1KM (1000M, 3300 feet). And of those dozen, 3 of them are currently in probate, so there isnt alot of equipment that can go down to work on such a salvage. All the salvages we are talking about here, (Monitor, Vasa, Mary Rose) were carried out by diver hitting deep depths for divers, here we are talking about a salvage at a depth where the number of people who have experience in a submerible at that depth is very very small, and there has never been a large scale salvage from that depth, especially not on an entire ship.
How do you keep the salinity the same on the boat as you transition it up 2 km? How do you keep the structure from twisting etc. The Wreck has been down there 2400 years, I dont know why you think its going to get in significantly worse shape by staying down there awhile longer.
-Tig