Following a hearty breakfast we
took a bus ride all the way to the other side of the island to Dockyard, where
we hopped off and met up with Doug Ingles, an expert on the wreck of the Warwick.
From him, we learned that although the Warwick
was first thought to be a British merchant ship, after the recent discovery of
many guns, canons and ammunitions during excavations this summer, Mr. Ingles’
team now believes the ship may have been a heavily armed privateer vessel in
its day. We then explored some examples of concretions and methods of
preserving weaponry, followed by a trip to the National Museum of Bermuda where
Elena Strong showed us the new items in the Shipwreck Island exhibit.
Afterwards we headed out to Cooper’s Island where some of us
did our Underwater Naturalist dive and others continued to experiment with underwater
photography. Here, the fish were brightly colored and abundant. This made struggling
against the powerful currents worth it. Thus concludes another fun day at BIOS.
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