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Ocean 180 -- Erasing Our Sunken Past. Expeditions in the Aegean Sea discovered over 25 ancient shipwrecks between 2009-2012, dating to the Greek and Roman times. These ships sank in deep waters, which has protected many of them from the reach of divers and storms. However, many of these sites are heavily damaged by commercial fishing, which use towed bottom trawls to drag up fish and shrimp from the seabed. These weighted nets destroy and scatter the artifacts on these wreck sites to the point..