So this is crazy. I see a story from NBC News National that says five sunken World War

One ships at the bottom of Texas River revealed by drought. Five World War One era ships were

found in a southeast Texas River this month as ongoing drought conditions push water levels

to new lows. A 70 year old retiree turned amateur shipwreck hunter discovered the wooden

vessels each 80 to 100 feet long in the natious river on August 16 according to the Icehouse

Museum in Cillsby, Texas, Cartradon Capital, South East. Bill Milner said a friend the museum's

curator, curator, urged him to keep an eye out for sunken ships on his regular trips to the river

between Jasper and Harden counties. Milner said she said if you got time go ahead and look for it.

It was an accident finding the shipwrecks but it wasn't an accident. I wasn't just playing around on a

jet ski with the drought battered river as low as he has ever seen it. Milner said he was confident he

would find a ship in the seemingly needle in a haystack search 50 50 I really thought in my mind

that if I was ever going to find anything this would be the time to do it. Said Milner a resident

of nearby Buna. I was that enthusiastic and optimistic about it. Milner who made the discovery after

about six weeks of searching said he used a jet ski because it was the only tool that could navigate

the vanishing netches. The water is so low that it's about the only thing you can get up down on

certain portions of our river right now. Southeast Texas used to be a shipbuilding hub and the

region was particularly active during World War I as America pressed to produce as many craft

as possible to sustain the war effort. But when the conflict known as the war to end all wars

concluded in 1918 many of those newly built wooden ships had no use and were simply abandoned

in places like the natures river. I didn't know that. Did you?

Milner said that older residents know about the areas shipbuilding and dumping history but that younger

locals are largely unaware. You will see old sunken barges that 50 60 years were parked out there

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