Mars sank during a fierce naval battle
as you are descending down towards the
wreck you’re actually jumping into a
time machine in this case 450 years back
in time we think most probably was the
biggest warship of its time when it was
built it was the legend surrounding the
Mars that actually got me intrigued as a
young boy I wanted to find her and kind
of see if the legend was true but it was
also the challenge as it were to find a
shipwreck that many other people had
tried to find but actually failed it’s a
part of a quite a long a war it’s called
a seven-year war where Denmark in
Germany was fighting speeding together
and it’s about control over the Baltic
Sea control over over over the trade in
the Baltic Sea and the power of the
Baltic Sea
Marcis is of course a sheep but is also
battlefield a frozen battlefield who
went down in just in the middle of this
fight it was an explosion on board so
the stem part was opening up so we think
it went down very quick in order to find
Mars we do state-of-the-art side-scan
sonar systems so the wreck is resting at
250 feets in a remarkable state of
preservation the cold and very dark
water in the Baltic Sea preserves Rex in
a fantastic way so you can see all the
details under all the decorations on the
gun and also the Court of arms of the
King so the legend about Mars does not
only involve her size as a battleship it
also involves big silver treasure a war
treasure and well actually started to
find traces of that treasure we have
started to find silver coins we know
that one of these silver coins is
estimated value is 13,000 euros and
since there are two hundred and twenty
thousand of them according to the record
it becomes quite a heap of all coins and
values we believe that more than 800
soldiers and sailors actually followed
Mars when she sank down to her grave so
there is quite a few human remains down
there making the wreck site even more
eerie to dive you can see a lot of bones
from these people
so the bones are surrounded by the
charcoal from from the fire and the
impact from the cannonballs and so on so
these people are laying right in this
frozen battlefield I think that’s a
quite an interesting part of this story
also that we actually could study here
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as you are descending down towards the
wreck you’re actually jumping into a
time machine in this case 450 years back
in time we think most probably was the
biggest warship of its time when it was
built it was the legend surrounding the
Mars that actually got me intrigued as a
young boy I wanted to find her and kind
of see if the legend was true but it was
also the challenge as it were to find a
shipwreck that many other people had
tried to find but actually failed it’s a
part of a quite a long a war it’s called
a seven-year war where Denmark in
Germany was fighting speeding together
and it’s about control over the Baltic
Sea control over over over the trade in
the Baltic Sea and the power of the
Baltic Sea
Marcis is of course a sheep but is also
battlefield a frozen battlefield who
went down in just in the middle of this
fight it was an explosion on board so
the stem part was opening up so we think
it went down very quick in order to find
Mars we do state-of-the-art side-scan
sonar systems so the wreck is resting at
250 feets in a remarkable state of
preservation the cold and very dark
water in the Baltic Sea preserves Rex in
a fantastic way so you can see all the
details under all the decorations on the
gun and also the Court of arms of the
King so the legend about Mars does not
only involve her size as a battleship it
also involves big silver treasure a war
treasure and well actually started to
find traces of that treasure we have
started to find silver coins we know
that one of these silver coins is
estimated value is 13,000 euros and
since there are two hundred and twenty
thousand of them according to the record
it becomes quite a heap of all coins and
values we believe that more than 800
soldiers and sailors actually followed
Mars when she sank down to her grave so
there is quite a few human remains down
there making the wreck site even more
eerie to dive you can see a lot of bones
from these people
so the bones are surrounded by the
charcoal from from the fire and the
impact from the cannonballs and so on so
these people are laying right in this
frozen battlefield I think that’s a
quite an interesting part of this story
also that we actually could study here
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