What Scientists Just Found Beneath Massachusetts Is Unbelievable

Something extraordinary is hidden beneath the Atlantic off Massachusetts.

Under the shifting sands near Cape Cod, divers discovered the wreck of the Whydah—a pirate ship lost during a violent storm in 1717 with treasure, weapons and nearly its entire crew. But the Whydah is only one piece of a much larger mystery beneath these waters.

Sonar surveys have revealed enormous schooners lying together after a 1902 collision, the long-lost passenger steamship Portland, ancient landscapes drowned as sea levels rose after the Ice Age, and massive underwater sand waves that are still moving across the seafloor today.

In this DiscoverTube investigation, we explore the hidden world beneath Massachusetts and Cape Cod using evidence from NOAA, the USGS, the National Park Service and underwater archaeologists.

Scientists are using multibeam sonar, side-scan sonar, magnetometers, remotely operated vehicles and sediment surveys to reconstruct shipwrecks, ancient coastlines and geological features buried beneath the Atlantic.

And the discoveries reveal something unexpected: the Massachusetts seafloor is not still. Storms expose wreckage and bury it again. Currents move enormous amounts of sand. Ancient shorelines remain submerged offshore. And many reported shipwrecks have still never been conclusively located.

If ships like the Whydah and Portland could remain hidden for generations, what else could still be buried beneath the waters beyond Cape Cod?

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