10-24-2007, 05:39 PM
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|  Divers think Lowcountry wreck is the Leif Eriksson
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CHARLESTON, S.C. --
It's a good place to dive, a sweet spot for spear-fishing and has long been one of the Lowcountry's more bizarre maritime mysteries.
For years, the skeletal frame of a ship that divers call the Anchor Wreck has sat anonymously in 100 feet of water off Bulls Bay, attracting fish and fishermen.
In an ocean filled with anonymous hulks, this one has always perplexed locals because there was never any mention of this 19th century ship's loss in Charleston papers, nary a name to be passed on from one generation to the next.
And there are few clues on the wreck itself.
"There's not much there - two large boilers and three anchors aft of the bow," says Rob Harding, a local diver. "Everybody knew it was there, but nobody knew what it was."
Until now......
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