THEY say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, and for the cruise industry that hopefully applies to the discovery of the final resting place of a sailing ship lost during a West Australian cyclone in 1911. The exciting find has been documented in a new Disney Original series called...
THEY say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, and for the cruise industry that hopefully applies to the discovery of the final resting place of a sailing ship lost during a West Australian cyclone in 1911.
The exciting find has been documented in a new Disney Original series called Shipwreck Hunters Australia, detailing the search for Finnish ship Glenbank which disappeared off the coast of WA, going down with all hands (pictured).
The remote deep-water site in the Dampier Marine Park was first located by a group of local anglers, with a dive team from Shipwreck Hunters bringing in the WA Museum to help in the mission confirming it was the Glenbank.
The researchers said the steel barque, under charter to carry copper ore from a mine near Balla Balla, capsized when its unsecured cargo shifted during a ferocious storm.
The story of the Glenbank shipwreck is documented in the first of six episodes in the new Disney series, which went live in full yesterday.
