Rome —
Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was an underwater rock turned out to be the wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman transport vessel off the coast of Sicily.
De Mola and fellow spear fisherman and diver Igor Bisulli were spearfishing off the coast of Mazara del Vallo last week when they saw what they thought was just a rock between 40 and 50 meters (131-164 feet) below the surface.
“But something compels me to check. One last breath. And I descend. The visibility isn’t the best. I see a large dark mass and think: ‘The usual big rock,’” De Mola wrote in an Instagram post.
Roman shipwreck discovered off the coast ...
