Hurricane Sandy left much damage along the East Coast and now it's been reported that it uncovered a ship wreck that was long buried on Fire Island - a barrier island off of Long Island, N.Y.
According to Newsday, the weathered schooner lies about 4 miles east of Davis Park, between Skunk Hollow and Whalehouse Point, in the Fire Island National Seashore.
Experts say the ship, a four-mast Canadian schooner, show that it went aground in heavy fog about a mile west of Smith's Point, Long Island, in either 1919 or 1922. All the crew members escaped alive, but the ship went on its own path and was eventually salvaged for the tons of coal it carried. The skeleton, however, remains on the beach of Fire Island in New York, where experts hope to study it before the tide takes it under again.
And while Long Island is still in tatters, Fire Island media contact Paula Valentine says that the discovery comes as good news.
"There's so little of it left we may not be not be able to determine which ship it actually is, but we may be able to learn more about its age ... It's just a rare treat to see something exposed."
