The Mary Rose | 1. raising the wreck
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The Meraurs
The Meraurs was always known that it sunk off Salsy Castle and there's an engraving that was made from contemporary pictures which we'd show. A magnetic anomaly revealed a gun that was absolutely Tudor, so the team knew this had to be the Mary Rose. But what to do next? Fortunately, Alexander McKee was extremely responsible and rather than he and his divers just straight away digging for treasure, as they might have called it in those days, in the middle of the ship.
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