Shipwrecks in Southeast Asia
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Reading Tony Well's Shipwrecks and Sunken Treasure - focused on southeast asian wreckages - allegedly the first book just about southeast asian wrecks.
Sea transport would have been only way and practical means of transport for thousands of years. Wreckages were also common.
Causes for wrecks included: Dangerous reefs (hydrographic survey ships meant to survey and warn against dangerous reefs crashed on the dangerous reefs. EIC ship Vansittart crashed in the Gasper Straits in Indonesia 1789 after hitting a shoal). War. Weather. Human error. eg setting gunpowder on fire in the dark gunpowder room. Unseaworthiness or Timber Dry Rot. Timbers seperating so water came in. (Water must be thrown on them constantly)
