Mysterious shipwreck — overgrown and unidentified — found by diver in Canada, video shows

While swimming off the coast of Canada, a team of divers came across a mysterious shipwreck.

The unidentified vessel was located under nearly 75 feet of water near Prince Edward Island, according to an Aug. 6 Facebook post from diver Allan Parrish.

Video posted by Parrish shows the wreck overgrown with marine life, with a variety of fish darting around in the murky water.

Parrish was made aware of the wreck’s potential existence by a Facebook post in a group for divers, according to industry publication The Scuba News. Other divers said they thought the vessel might have been a U-boat or an old barge.

So, Parrish decided to join a team of four other divers to check it out, according to the outlet.

“When you’re going down, you have no idea what you’re going to see,” Parrish told CBC News. “It’s amazing. And I wasn’t disappointed.”

It’s not clear what kind of vessel the wreck is, but it could be a wooden sailboat named the Brittanis that sank in the same area in 1852, staff from a regional museum told the outlet.

Additional dives will be planned to further examine it, Parrish told the outlet.

The ocean floor is littered with shipwrecks. According to an estimate by UNESCO, there are over 3 million sunken vessels worldwide waiting to be discovered.

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province off the northern coast of Nova Scotia.

This story was originally published August 23, 2023 at 1:41 PM with the headline "Mysterious shipwreck — overgrown and unidentified — found by diver in Canada, video shows."