The Sindia

[rumracer]

The Sindia - Sailing ship that ran aground on the shores of Ocean City, New Jersey. Why hasnt this wreck been excavated by now, Its located its under the sand. im just confused as too why someone hasnt tried to find its contents buried. Is it a political thing, money thing, does someone own claim to it?
k

 

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[pcolaboy]

Have you checked out this site?

http://www.thesindia.com/main.html

Seems as though there have been a few attempts at recovery but none sucessfull.

Based on the 1970 photograph of the remains of the ship at low tide, it would seem to suggest that whatever cargo remained on the ship would have either been widely scattered or salvaged right away.

Pcola

 

[rumracer]

Have you checked out this site?

http://www.thesindia.com/main.html

Seems as though there have been a few attempts at recovery but none sucessfull.

Based on the 1970 photograph of the remains of the ship at low tide, it would seem to suggest that whatever cargo remained on the ship would have either been widely scattered or salvaged right away.

Pcola

Yup Ive seen it
From my reading the article and doing a little research,, groups have come toghether with plans to try to recover any cargo but none have actually tried to do it.

 

[allen_idaho]

The reason it was never salvaged is because the majority of the cargo consisted of Japanese silk products. When the ship broke in two, all of this cargo was ruined. Some was saved before she broke but not much. What remained was not worth the trouble in trying to salvage. That would be about 200 tons of Manganese Ore used as ballast.

However, in the early 1990's, for some reason, a story came out about the Sindia possibly containing stolen Buddhist temple artifacts in place of the Manganese ore. A bit of speculation that makes no real sense.

Here is a ship whose captain and crew were taken off safely. Which is beached and buried. Why do you think that there were no salvage attempts between 1901 and 1995? Because there is nothing to get.

In 1995, the rights to the wreck were purchased by a group of investors who planned to spend $5 million on the recovery of this imaginary treasure. The rights were put in the name of Dennis J. Parisi, president of Drexel Aqua Technologies, Midland Park, NJ.

Obviously, it didn't pan out.

 

[rumracer]

Well that makes more sense.
Thanks

Kevin

 

[ballbuster]

Interesting read. http://www.thesindia.com/main.html