[CINC] Wrecked ships and planes ensnared by Channel Islands

[Staci Kaye-Carr]

http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jun/14/what-lies-beneath/

Wrecked ships and planes ensnared by Channel Islands now offer window  
to the past
What lies beneath

By Brett Johnson (Contact)
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Oh, what lies beneath and the tales they could tell.

Peel away the sea’s curtains, peer deep into its inky depths with  
modern technology’s might, and the past emerges in bits and pieces,  
though shifting sands and fickle currents that can just as easily push  
it into dark and tricky abysses.

It’s there though, both real and potentially, and right off our coast,  
tantalizingly close and yet hidden so far in the murk — the now- 
stilled vices of gold, death, war, sex, Hollywood, Prohibition  
rumrunners, opium smuggling and guns.

It teases to the days of roaming Spanish galleons, to when ships were  
kings of commerce and suppliers of news. It ranges from primitive  
Chumash canoes called tomols used thousands of years ago all the way  
to a modern airline tragedy.

Some 700 shipwrecks and plane crashes have occurred in the Santa  
Barbara Channel off our coast from Point Mugu to Point  
Sal,..............
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jun/14/what-lies-beneath/