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Champagne bottles, Baltic Sea
A sailing ship that sank in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish island of Öland in the late nineteenth century was packed with specialty beverages. Divers from the Baltictech diving group, led by Tomasz Stachura, explored the 52.5-foot-long wreck, which lies 190 feet underwater, and found that it contains around 100 sealed clay bottles. A stamp on these bottles revealed that they contain mineral water produced by a German company called Selters—from which the w
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