Beautiful wooden wreck of a schooner found in the Baltic Sea

At the bottom of the Baltic Sea, the SubZone group found the beautiful wooden wreck of a schooner. The divers located the vessel while checking an unknown position. Located in the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Finland is a wonderful area full of surprises. Especially if you have a passion for history and wreck hunting.

ByTomasz Andrukajtis

Published: August 22, 2021 - 09:00

Updated: July 22, 2023 - 23:05

Beautiful wooden wreck of a schooner found in the Baltic Sea

At the bottom of the Baltic Sea, the SubZone group found the beautiful wooden wreck of a schooner. The divers located the vessel while checking an unknown position.

Located in the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Finland is a wonderful area full of surprises. Especially if you have a passion for history and wreck hunting. Frosty and dark waters hide perfectly preserved remnants of many vesselsThe cold and dark waters here hide well-preserved wrecks that have gone to the bottom over the centuries.

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Barrels on the wreck — The wreck and its cargo are intact Fot. Sami Paakkarinen/SubZone

The uniqueness of the Baltic Sea

It is the unique underwater conditions that make almost every wreck here a real time capsule. Low temperature, minimal salinity, lack of sunlight and trace amounts of oxygen are an ideal mixture. Thanks to this, even wrecks that are several hundred years old in the Baltic Sea look as if they sank yesterday.

Undoubtedly, the above situation makes a diver can feel like he is in a museum here. Therefore, archaeologists and historians can almost peek into the past and see what life was like on a ship or a vessel in particular historical periods. The found wrecks, often many centuries old, are also a treasure trove of knowledge about boatbuilding and maritime design.

Beautiful wooden wreck of a schooner — The wreckage was found while checking for anomalies Photo: Sami Paakkarinen/SubZone

Immi Wallin and the SubZone group have been searching waters of the Gulf of Finland for years in search of shipwrecks. Their latest discovery is the beautiful wooden wreck of a schooner. The divers discovered the previously unknown vessel while checking an anomaly that appeared on the sonar readings. During the exploration the diving team saw a magnificent and previously unknown wreck.

The stern of the found wreck — The wreck of the schooner is another wreck in the long list of wrecks found by SubZone Fot. Sami Paakkarinen/SubZone

This fully loaded small cargo vessel ran into trouble when a fire broke out in the aft cabin. It is likely that the vessel lost its main mast in bad weather. The incident resulted in the death of one crew member, whose remains were discovered in a lifeboat on board the vessel. The rest of the crew was washed away into the rough sea. – reads the dive report shared by the SubZone group.

Diver exploring the wreck — A diver during an exploration of a schooner wreck Photo: Sami Paakkarinen/SubZone

Photo by Sami Paakkarinen, lights by Jenni Westerlund and Laura Tuominen

About author

Tomasz Andrukajtis

Editor-in-chief of the DIVERS24 portal and magazine. Responsible for obtaining, translating and developing content. He also supervises all publications. Achived his first diving certification – P1 CMAS, in 2000. Has a degree in journalism and social communication. In the diving industry since 2008.