Image Credit: Scuba divers off Greece recovered the first artifacts from the HMHS Britannic, the Titanic’s sister ship, officials said and photos show. Photo from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports
By Aspen Pflughoeft
Off the southern coast of Greece sits the wreckage of one of the Titanic’s sister ships, the HMHS Britannic. Over a century after the luxury-ocean-liner-turned-World-War-I-hospital sank, scuba divers recently recovered the first artifacts from the ship.
A team of specialized scuba divers and marine archaeologists spent about a week in May working on the wreck of the HMHS Britannic off Kea Island as part of the site’s first artifact recovery project, the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports said in a Sept. 15 news release.
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