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| Tango01 | 15 Jun 2015 9:59 p.m. PST |
… escape ship, L'Inconstant , found off Cape York. "Respected filmmaker and underwater explorer Ben Cropp, who has been diving on the Great Barrier Reef for more than 60 years, says he has found the final resting place of the French-built Swiftsure, which played a crucial role in Napoleon's life more than 200 years ago. After losing more than 350,000 men in his march on Russia in 1814, Napoleon abdicated as Emperor of France and was exiled to the island of Elba, off the coast of Italy. He later escaped the island in the L'Inconstant . In the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, the vessel was believed to have been taken as a prize by the British and renamed the Swiftsure…"
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| jowady | 16 Jun 2015 7:01 a.m. PST |
She's a little over 6 feet down right where she's supposed to be, one wonders how hard she was to find? |
| Tango01 | 16 Jun 2015 10:37 a.m. PST |
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