{"id":89786,"date":"2019-04-21T11:42:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T18:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/sonar-accidentally-detects-16th-century-dutch-shipwreck"},"modified":"2019-04-21T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T18:42:52","slug":"sonar-accidentally-detects-16th-century-dutch-shipwreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/sonar-accidentally-detects-16th-century-dutch-shipwreck","title":{"rendered":"Sonar \u2018Accidentally\u2019 Detects 16th-Century Dutch Shipwreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sonar-accidentally-detects-16th-century-dutch-shipwreck2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In what is being hailed as a lucky accident, a salvage team looking for containers that had fallen off a transport ship in Dutch waters discovered a 16th-century shipwreck on the North Sea floor.<\/p>\n<p>Copper plates and wooden beams were found on the vessel, which dates back to 1540, making it the oldest find of a seafaring ship in Dutch waters ever, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cultureelerfgoed.nl\/actueel\/nieuws\/2019\/04\/03\/oudste-zeevarende-schip-gevonden-%E2%80%93-hout-uit-1536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/sonar-accidentally-detects-16th-century-dutch-shipwreck-1783915\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is being hailed as a lucky accident, a salvage team looking for containers that had fallen off a transport ship in Dutch waters discovered a 16th-century shipwreck on the North Sea floor. Copper plates and wooden beams were found on the vessel, which dates back to 1540, making it the oldest find of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}