How can thousands of recreational divers every year looking in every nook and cranny of a shipwreck as popular as the Hardeep wreck near Pattaya,Thailand miss an artifact as obvious as a China cup. Easy. Put it deep inside the wreck at the end of a tricky penetration dive hidden under 60 years of coral and shell growth.
The above cup, found in one of the forward staterooms of the Hardeep took many weeks of careful searching through the shells, sea urchins and scorpion fish before it ended up in the goody bag of a diver. Some mild acid and some very careful chips at the marine growth, eventualy got it to how it looks now.
Some medicine bottles and other pharmacy goods were also recovered in the same area. Rumour has it that the cup belonged to the ships doctor…
It hapens, one of our divers, on his first Trident trip picked up a bit of wreckage on the HTMS Pangan,that we’d all ignored for ages.
turned out be be a Royal Thai Navy sterling silver condiment tray .
nice one, Oli
still spitting, Jamie MV Trident
Love the advice. Thank you.