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The Irish government has released a “Wreck Viewer,” which maps thousands of shipwrecks around Ireland as far back as the 16th century.
\nIt includes RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915, an event that helped bring the US into World War I.
\nDetails of thousands of other destroyed ships remain unknown.<\/p>\n
A new map shows thousands of shipwrecks scattered around Ireland since the 16th century — and it shows how many maritime disasters are still a total mystery.<\/p>\n
The “Wreck Viewer,” released by the Irish government’s National Monuments Service this April<\/a>, shows the approximate locations of 3,554 shipwrecks across a 355,000 square mile area around Ireland and the North Atlantic Ocean.See the rest of the story at Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n NOW WATCH: Watch the moment Trump and Kim Jong Un share a historic handshake at Singapore summit<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/p>\n The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, who started Theranos when she was 19 and became the world’s youngest female billionaire before it all came crashing down<\/a>The Trump-Kim summit is over, but it’s China’s vision that emerged dominant<\/a>Kim Jong Un’s internet-famous bodyguards have been seen jogging in formation around his car in Singapore \u2014 here’s everything we know about them<\/a>
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