A group of underwater treasure hunters has salvaged hundreds of bottles of rare cognac and liqueur from a ship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I
Divers and unmanned underwater vehicles from Ocean X Team and iXplorer worked around the clock for a week last month to haul up case after case of booze from the Swedish steamer SS Kyros, which has been sitting in about 250 feet of water in the Baltic Sea.They recovered 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co. cognac and 300 bottles of Benedictine liqueur -- a brand now owned by Bacardi, Peter Lindberg with the Ocean X Team told CNN. "We don't know yet if it is drinkable.
"They don't know how many bottles still have their seals intact, he said, but some have had their corks pushed down into the bottles."Those bottles that have their corks still in place should be good since there is still air between the level of the content and the cork," Lindberg said.First Titanic dives in 14 years reveal how the ocean floor is swallowing up the shipwreck The Kyros was on its way from France to the Russian city of St.
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