Tech Problems & Mistakes
R.O.V.s can be extremely expensive, up to 4 million dollars! But they are worth every penny. Without them, shipwrecks wouldn't be able to be seen, or even identified!
But trouble can brew heavily when one breaks. This means it is usually a very good idea to have a super-good R.O.V. technician on-board, as well as spare parts for the R.O.V.! However, some problems just can't be fixed on-board the ship. You have to go to on land in order to fix the R.O.V.... and sometimes just to figure out what the heck is wrong, because you can't always tell what is wrong, and your best guess might have been proven wrong. This can cost a ton of money, and cause havoc with your schedule and plans, because you have to sail back to the mainland and get the robot fixed.
Sonar is another highly-important ingredient to the recipe of ship-and-treasure-finding. But you must keep an open mind, and be ready for anything. Why? Well, you could be looking at a sonar, and it definitely looks like a certain kind of ship. You can be positive it's this kind of ship, but when you actually go under, you find out otherwise! Natural causes made a shipwreck of a certain ship look like the one you're were sure the wreck was. That's part of the fun of solving these odd kinds of mysteries!
U-103
The German U-Boat called the U-103 is a famous wreck, and a little unusual. It was attacking the sister ship of the Titanic, which had been disguised and was being used for transporting soldiers in World War I. The passenger ship spotted the U-103, and quickly got on the offensive. How? She rammed it!!!
"A ship rammed a U-Boat? A submarine?!?" you might be asking. Yep, she did!!! Like one would suspect, the captain of U-103 ordered a dive. But this didn't save the U-103. The passenger ship's propellers cut into the U-Boat, and U-103 sank, making it a extremely rare case of "U-Boat sunk by a passenger ship"! Definitely very cool!
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