Mini-Titanic: fascinating underwater photos of the ship that sank 107 years ago

Fearless photographer Becky Kagan Schott and his team descended to the bottom of the cold Lake Superior in the USA to photograph the sunken 107 years ago ship The Gunilda — a 60-meter long vessel built in the Scottish city of Leith.

The team managed to dive to a depth of about 82 meters.

Source: Daily Mail

Becky, a professional underwater photographer, said that her favorite photo is a room with a piano. Becky can easily imagine what this room looked like before it was flooded.

According to Becky, the sunken ship is surprisingly well preserved, which is unusual for such a long stay under water.

"It was like time travel. In all the years of work and filming of sunken ships, I have never seen such a thing. We swam up to the windows and saw the piano, still standing in its place, the table for card games and chairs turned to the fireplace, the clock hanging on the wall, gilded porcelain dishes. It's an impressive sight."

Not many divers dare to reach the Gunilda ship due to the remote location of the lake, the depth and low water temperature. So it took brave first-class divers for this shoot.

"We had only 25 minutes at depth to capture this beauty. We surfaced for another 75 minutes. Such a complex dive should be clearly coordinated, like a dance."

"There is absolute darkness at the bottom of the lake, which makes communication and movement very difficult."