In 1725, a French ship, Le Chameau, struck a
rock in a stormy sea. A big hole cuted in the bottom of the ship and it went
down off the shore of Nova Scotia. On board the ship there were 300,000 gold
and silver coins.
For many years they lied at the bottom of
the deep sea. One summer Alex Storm and Dave MacEachern began to dive the
freezing waters off Nova Scotia. They had to fight big waves and strong
currents. Big sharks saw swimming around
them. When the two friends got out of the water, they were blue with cold and shaked.
On September 22, Alex and Dave were ready to dive again. They didn’t
expect anything to find this time. They were down so many times before.
“Perhaps we ought to give up,” Alex said.
They dived again and suddenly they could
not believe their eyes. “Look! We are swimming over thousands of coins. They
pile row on row,” Dave said. The
excited men to pick the coins up in their hands and went to the top.