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- Not far away from the Great Canglou, a diving club from Marseille discovered 20 days ago a Greek wreck of Socrates.

- This ship was damaged in the waves like many on Riou, Jarre and Plane Islands.

- A place feared in Antiquity and at the times when sailors didn’t know how to go back against the wind.

- “The disaster is quite simple to reconstruct, the main winds have not changed in 2,500 years,

- the ship was coming from the south east, and it seems that it did so with a wind blowing from behind and a storm south east.

- And it wanted to line the island to take shelter from the wind, there it was taken by a wind blow and it bumped on this small cape.

- Marseille was 2 meters away, there it bumped into this sharp end,

- and as it was heavily loaded, we found it with its cargo but it suddenly sunk straight.

- What was onboard?

- “Well, onboard there was this very curious thing: copper hardtacks.

- It is a curiosity, it is a major first, no old copper in the raw was ever found, that is to say in the shape of ingots.”

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- In the Bay of Marseille there are, known for 60 years, some 20 major wrecks.

- We can say that sailing used to be less secure as it is now,

- so there were 20 wrecks in 60 years, we can say that there were certainly at least 30 or 40 per century, by 2005

- and you reach the quite amazing total of 10,000 wrecks in the Bay of Marseille.

- Those wrecks are sometimes sanded up, only a current is needed to remove it.

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- Sir Mogel, was it a good harvest?

- Not too bad a harvest, have a look are the back bridge,

- there we dug up about 10 ingots or hardtacks, as those were copper ingots, but pizza-shaped.

- There is some current at the bottom but the water is good and there are very nice things to take out from this wreck.

- We had never found any copper.

- We found various materials from this time but never copper.