The Deadwater Wreck: When a Shipwreck Mystery Becomes a Landscape Problem
Renewed fieldwork in Western Australia's Wonnerup Deadwater has again failed to locate the celebrated wreck, but the failure sharpens a more important possibility: the nineteenth-century accounts may describe several vessels. Reconstructing a moving coastline, separating the French chaloupe from whaling-era losses, and demanding secure archaeological context may matter more than finding one dramatic artefact.