CJ> Tell me about _The Breadlebane_--I can't connect anything
 JR> It's a nineteenth C. ship discovered in the arctic under ice, and
 JR> It's eerily pristine -- a little like those bodies of sailors they
 JR> exhumed from the Franklin expedition.
	The crew of the _Octavius_ was also well preserved by the
 cold, except for the body of the captain still sitting at a table.
 He had a thin covering of green mold over his face.
	Arctic exploration is a rich source for writers who have
 characters that need to chill out.
	Regarding non-iced derelict ships, I offer the hypothesis
 that at least one or two may have had their crews killed by 
 asphyxiation or heat by unluckily sailing over an undersea 
 eruption.  
 
 JR> I like the story of the [something] light, which still supposedly
 JR> appears yearly off the coast of Labrador. It was a ship that caught on
 JR> fire, and if you look closely at the light, it is said you can see
	That's in _Strange Sea Stories and Legends_ too, I think, 
 though (if the same) it's in Mahone Bay off Nova Scotia.  The
 ship supposed to be replaying its end is a Yank privateer of the
 War of 1812, the _Young Teazer_.  It was set fire to avoid capture,
 but blew up before the crew could get clear.
	Mahone Bay also has Oak Island, of the famous "treasure"
 pit engineered to be flooded.  Do you know if anything further
 has been done about it in the past quarter-century?  I find it
 hard to believe that somebody hasn't used some kind of brute-force
 method (i.e., sinking a cofferdam around the whole bloody thing or
 using a gazillion pumps) to find out what's buried there.
 JR> figures jumping off the burning ship. Then there was the Seven Hunters
 JR> lighthouse, which would make a good movie, if it already hasn't been
 JR> done.
	OK, tell me more about Seven Hunters.
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