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Wreck Identified and Located in Fortaleza: Rose barge wrecked in 1897 News in brief

Structures Wooden Rose. Note the tip of a brass stud in the center of the structure right.

An underwater hunter claimed to have located and identified the barge of German origin Rose wreck in 1897.

Greens rough seas of Ceará hidden beauties and mysteries. The coast called "east-west" was feared by mariners of the era of discovery. Its winds, its inhabitants and their submerged reefs had hostilities sufficient to avoid. Centuries later settled some of these dangers are still real for this stretch of coast and many ships that sank were remembered in a moment only to be almost completely forgotten. Only when we venture into the underwater world can have a real sense of what our hidden seas.

is the case of barge Rose. Wrecked more than a century, his record can still be seen in relation to sunken vessels of the Navy of Brazil. But what were only indicators of an earlier accident came to light to show that the story actually happened.

a barge According to the records of German origin named "Rose" sank in Recife Great in Fortaleza in 1897. No data on its precise location, cargo, crew or cause of the accident. Just a few words kept this fact in the history of Ceará. That was until March 2010.

Earlier this year a known sub hunter told us you have located a shipwreck. When diving on site we found a large anchor submerged about hum meters from the surface at low tide on the outskirts of Recife Grande. During the dive locate other anchor a few feet of chain with thick links, structures that appear to be the machinery to suspend the anchor, brass nails and nails scattered and encrusted in coral. The relief was also equally peculiar. The masses of coral had similar shapes that looked like barrels and extended over a large area. When shaving a bit of an inlay of these "barrels" come to a gray matter confirmed that it is not evidence of organic man-made structures.

There, the wreckage was located, but which one? A brief survey pointed to some possibilities but stopped there. The wreck was doomed to anonymity when months later I was informed that an object shaped like a bell had been found by a fisherman at the site of the wreckage. Earlier did not have many expectations because there's so much garbage in that area. But after a brief cleaning the object made by the fishermen knew that it was a bell with a name written in stylized letters: "Rose."

was identified more a part of a grand puzzle. More research and studies are underway and we expect it to further enrich the Naval History Cearense.