Archaeologists are recovering a 600-year-old ship from Lake Constance, where it was discovered near a medieval Benedictine Abbey by an ice skater, the state of Baden-Württemberg announced on Thursday.
The local ice skater reported the shallow wreck off the lake’s Reichenau Island in the winter of 2006, and subsequent dives and carbon testing by archaeologists revealed it was from the 14th century.
After the first dive in early 2006, it was clear that there was limited time to document and save the boat from environmental dangers, a statement from the Stuttgart regional commission said...[Link]