• Divers have recovered material from the wreckage of 17th century Swedish gunship The Kronan including a dairy product they believe to be 340-year-old cheese!
• Lars Einarsson, the marine archeologist who led ‘The Kronan Project’ said the cheese smelled like a mix of yeast and Roquefort and “seemed to be alive”.
• The Kronan, which was the largest ship of its time, sank in the Baltic Sea in 1676.
• According to Einarsson, the low salinity of the sea and the fact that the ship sank in clay helped to preserve the cheese, which was sealed in a pewter canister.
• Einarsson does not think anyone will taste the 340-year-old cheese.
• The cheese has been sent to a lab, with results expected in a week.

Read more:

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/07/31/scientists-found-a-pot-of-cheese-in-300-year-old-shipwreck/

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/07/divers-just-found-a-sweet-tub-of-cheese-in-a-17th-century-shipwreck/

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3699151/340-year-old-cheese-discovered-at-shipwreck-site-and-man-does-it-stink-1.3697365

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