Divers find luxury ship
h Houghton, Michigan •-Divers aboard Jacques Cousteau’s research ship Calypso have discovered and Will film the 69-year-old wreck of a luxury ship in perfect condition at the bottom y ? of Lake Superior according to a crew member dn -the Calypso. “The’Ship, the Gunilda, is ipzi perfect condition,” the crewman, Christian Goues, said in a marine telephone : interview. “There is gold paint on the bow and on the stern where the name is written. I :"“The masts are still up and 1 the rigging is still in not per-
feet, but good, condition because of the cold: water;: If it is not the most beautiful ship we have seen under water, it is one of the most beautiful.” ! The; Gunilda, which sank in 1911, was found last week pn the Mac Garvey Shoal near Roscoff, Ontario. Mr Goues said the luxury ship was owned by a rich oil man and sank .ip very clear water about 80 metres deep. ; . He denied a rumour that preserved bodies had been found in the ship. “There was nobody dead in the ship,” Mr Goues said. “The ship* was on the shoals
for several hours before she sank and people had time to get off.”
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