IU Directors Search For Columbus' Lost Ships
Two Indiana University directors are helping in the search for Christopher Columbus’ lost ships.
Charles Beeker, director of Academic Diving and Underwater Science Programs at IU, and Geoffrey Conrad, director of IU's Mathers Museum of World Cultures, took a team of faculty and graduate students to La Isebela Bay in the Dominican Republic this summer to investigate some promising magnetometer readings. The readings suggest that large objects are scattered in a 75-square-meter area under silt and mud--similar to how a shipwreck would appear.
Among their latest efforts, they retrieved a 300-pound anchor that could be from the Columbus era. Conrad and Beeker described the La Isabela Bay research project as a long-term investment by IU, which has funded much of the research.
Indiana University archaeologists are confident they are closer to discovering some of the lost ships -- and with them an answer to the mystery of what was on those ships.
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