Bob Chaulk, a SCUBA diver based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has strapped on his SCUBA gear countless times to examine white lies beneath.
He has seen some really cool stuff, but this discovery was different.
This discovery would get him worldwide headlines.
What Is That?
When Chaulk made his discovery, Canadian news outlets made some rather larger claims.
They stated that what was found by Chaulk “could shed a little new light on one aspect of a dark chapter in Nova Scotian history.”
Then, on a dive he had conducted many times over, “in a small cove in the narrows between Halifax’s two bridges,” he found something quite different.
Chaulk explained, “When I first saw the anchor, I thought, OK, there’s a wreck here, some old derelict came in here. But there’s no way a ship that size could have gotten in here.”
He spent a full tank of air trying to figure out exactly what it was.
After doing research, it appeared that Chaulk had finally explained a tragic event that took place on December 6, 1917.
That area was reportedly “ground zero for the Halifax Explosion, which killed nearly 2,000 people.”
According to the account of the event, the “Imo and the Mont Blanc, a ship carrying explosive cargo, collided. The Mont Blanc caught fire and drifted into Pier 6, a space occupied today by the giant Halifax Shipyard building.
“The St. Bernard, a lumber schooner, was also at the dock.”
When one ship blew up, Chaulk now believes the anchor of the St. Bernard went flying through the air and eventually landed where Chaulk had made his underwater discovery.
Source: Right Wing Newshour
