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PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND—Divers returned to the protected site of the Tudor wreck of the Mary Rose, where there are still some timbers and artifacts covered with silt. “Everything is now deeply buried and this will preserve what remains on the seabed into the future,” maritime archaeologist Christopher Dobbs of the Mary Rose Trust told Culture 24. The team placed a datalogger on the seabed and a high-tech buoy on the surface that will transfer information on the ship’s condition to scientists via satellite. The warship was constructed between 1509 and 1511, and sank in the Solent during a battle with the French in 1545. The ship was raised in 1982 and is now housed in its own museum in Portsmouth.
