Local explorer Jeff Hummel and his crew at Rockfish, Inc., made the astonishing discovery a few months ago.
VIDEO: Washington's deadliest shipwreck discovered nearly 150 years laterOn Nov. 4, 1875, the ill-fated SS Pacific departed the harbor in Victoria, British Columbia. The sidewheel streamliner bound for San Francisco never reached its destination. Not far from Cape Flattery on the Washington coast, the vessel was struck by the sailing ship, Orpheus.
“If we hadn’t found it, I don’t know how long it would be until someone else would have found it,” said Hummel. “It seemed like an impossible task. I mean, it’s out in the middle of nowhere.”“The wealthiest timber baron on the West Coast was on board the ship,” said Hummel. “There were gold miners returning with their fortune and they had risked everything up until that point.”
“‘We’re on the voyage home, we’re about to arrive with our fortunes, and they never made it,” said Hummel. “I wouldn’t be sitting here if he hadn’t survived that,” said Adams. “He would never forget the cries of the people who were drowning and calling for help.”
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