Workers on Baltic Sea pipeline discover 1,000-year-old wrecks

Allan Hall, in Berlin 502PM GMT 09 March 2010

"We have conduct to brand twelve shipwrecks, and 9 of them are deliberate to be sincerely old," pronounced Peter Norman, a comparison confidant with Sweden"s Heritage Board that done the proclamation this week.

"We think most of the ships are from the 17th and 18th centuries and we think a little could even be from the Middle Ages," he added. "This find offers huge culture-historical value."

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The shipwrecks were detected during a examine by the Russian-led Nord Stream consortium whilst plotting the programmed gas tube from Russia to the European Union.

"They used sonar apparatus initial and detected a little roughness along the sea bottom, so they filmed a little of the disproportionate areas, and we could see the wrecks," combined Norman.

Due to the low temperatures and oxygen levels the Baltic Sea preserves shipwrecks improved than alternative oceans.

There are no stream plans to lift the wrecks - lying at inlet of 300 feet and some-more - but Sweden pronounced it would cruise any requests to try them.