Intro
"...then suddenly a huge black shadow appears - the silhouette of the ship's hull emerges..."
Henrik Pohl (underwater archaeologist), 2007 Eisenmann et al.: Denkmalgerechtes Tauchen. Unterwasserarchäologie. Wracktauchen. Spezialkurse zur Tauchausbildung, 2007, S. 7.
On February 12. 1864, the steamship "Jura" sinks to the bottom of Lake Constance after a collision with the "Stadt Zürich". The accident is soon forgotten. Only about 100 years later the wreck is rediscovered by coincidence.