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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1445969, member: 4381&quot;]Coins key to ship mystery</p><p><br /></p><p>Shipwreck hunters will make a new expedition to the Abrolhos Islands in a bid to solve the 300-year-old mystery of the lost Dutch ship the Aagtekerke, which is thought to have gone down along the WA coast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hugh Edwards and his team believe the Aagtekerke struck Half Moon Reef in the archipelago off Geraldton when it disappeared en route to Indonesia in 1726.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next month they hope to find some of the three tonnes of silver coins the ship was carrying between the Cape of Good Hope and Jakarta that could prove the wreck is in the Abrolhos Islands.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/13734979/coins-key-to-ship-mystery/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/13734979/coins-key-to-ship-mystery/" rel="nofollow">http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/13734979/coins-key-to-ship-mystery/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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