Russian America

Russian AmericaBig story of the Russian Navy transport ship “America” in brilliant magazine Asian Diver #1/Vol 124 .

The story about famous ship and UW archaeologists work on finding and identifying of shipwrecks.

Early on a sunny morning of August 6, captain Andrey Sinitsyn commanded to cast off a 53-tonne diving boat 311 heading for the western-most point of Russia in the Gulf of Finland – the island of Hogland. So the 71st underwater archaeological expedition of the project Secrets of Shipwrecks started.
This time, the main task was to search for the remains of America. Nowadays, only the lonely graves in an abandoned island cemetery remind us of her death.

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