Underwater archeologist talks of shipwreck history at Nolan Center celebration

Jenya Anichenko just wants to know what happened.

In 1908, the Star of Bengal - an iron-sided sailing ship carrying 138 people - sank off the coast of Southeast Alaska's Coronation Island. The ship was carrying 106 Chinese, Japanese and Filipino salmon cannery workers, and 32 white crew members. The crew's survival rate was over 50%, but just nine percent of the Asian cannery workers survived.

Anichenko's talk explored possible reasons for the racial discrepancies in the survival rates, as well as ways to better understand the sinking of the Star of Bengal - a story the underwater archeologist...

 

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