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"Captain Herndon pointed to the thinning clouds and expected that their breaking up portended a finish to the storm. He spoke to the men at the pushes; he cheered the men in the bailing lines. He told them he thought the storm was abating, and this if they would just continue steadily to bail until noon, the machine might be saved.... Though the individuals received the captain's comments with great cheer, Herndon recognized his trust was bogus. He knew the ocean would grow again and the breeze would blow with even greater fury. He recognized that a dispatch floating 750 a great deal of iron with drinking water filling her carry, and more drinking water constantly rushing in, could stay afloat but some time longer." - Gary Kinder, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck There have been many numbers of shipwrecks over the course of history, but few experienced as great an impact as the sinking of the SS Central America in a hurricane in Sept 1857. The California Gold Rush was completely swing, state of the art steamer ships were used to move the discovered yellow metal back again east, and the Central America was one of these. On its fateful voyage, the dispatch was carrying nearly 600 individuals and a huge haul of up to 20 a great deal of gold worth an estimated $2 million at that time. On the way from Cuba to New York City, the Central America was found in a Level Two hurricane that this never really had a potential for knowing about in advance. With winds over 100 miles per hour, the hurricane ripped its sails, and the dispatch started dealing with water while struggling to keep its boiler going. These conditions basically doomed the dispatch.
