Boats that sailed a long time ago.

There's boats that sailed a long time ago.

And then there's boats that sailed a LONG time ago.

There's boats that departed a long time ago.

And then there's boats that departed a LONG time ago.

There's boats with secrets at the bottom of the ocean.

And then there's boats with secrets UNCOVERED from the bottom of the ocean.

There's historians who update their history books.

And then there's historians who REFUSE to update their history books.

This started as a post about missed opportunities.

But it turned into a post about NEW opportunities.

I'm quitting engineering for archaeology.

I'm only HALF joking.

In 2008, I read "Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II" (2005) by Robert Kurson, while working in sub shop (submarine gift shop at Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago, not a Subway sandwich shop).