January 3, 2022 — Scientists often find oddities on the seafloor, but NOAA researchers were baffled when a camera dropped off Maine landed on top of a large propeller 100 miles from shore.
No shipwreck, mind you. Just the propeller “lying among the rocks, sea stars, and sea anemones.”
The mystifying discovery was made in the Gulf of Maine, as the fishing vessel Mary Elizabeth was participating in a NOAA Fisheries seafloor survey.