Maritime archaeologists dig for clues in Western Australia's centuries-old Deadwater wreck mystery
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Oceania · Australia · Aug 29, 2026
Primary source: ABC News
Maritime archaeologist Ian McCann is using metal detectors and water drills to investigate the Deadwater wreck, a vessel of unknown origin buried in a lagoon near Busselton, Western Australia, that colonial-era eyewitness accounts already described as very old in the 1840s.
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