A Fisherman Pulled Up a Sealed Metal Box From 300 Meters Deep — Inside Was a Photograph of His Boat
Aleksei Volkov, a commercial fisherman operating in the Barents Sea, pulled up a sealed steel box in his nets on September 14th, 2021. This was not unusual — the seabed in that region holds decades of dropped equipment and debris.
What was unusual was the box's condition: no corrosion. Steel submerged at 300 meters in the Barents Sea shows significant corrosion within years. This box looked, in Aleksei's words,
He pried it open. It was sealed with a rubber gasket, still intact.
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