15th-century ship found beneath Barcelona car park site

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentArchaeologists in Barcelona dug up a fifteenth-century ship at a former fish market site that had been a public parking lot since nineteen ninety-six.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt was about five metres underground, so for thirty years people were parking on a ship.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's only about ten metres long and has roughly thirty curved ribs.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLead archaeologist Santi Palacios called it exceptional, saying it's not every day we come across a ship of these dimensions.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThirty ribs.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's too fragile to lift in one piece, so the team is taking it apart piece by piece and treating the fragments with water-soluble wax.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe wood has to stay wet or it will crack.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA ship that survived a storm and five centuries, and now it's being taken apart by people with wax. Frankly, I'd have stayed under the car park.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDale, you'd be a great meme at the bottom of a car park.