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Underwater discovery reveals 1787 shipwreck with potentially intact treasures

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Underwater archaeologists may have discovered a long-lost 18th-century treasure ship that vanished over two centuries ago.

Marine expert Edmond O’Byrne told Pen News that his team found what is believed to be the Recovery, a British ship that was lost off the coast of Wexford, Ireland, in 1787. (See the video at the top of this article.) 

The ship carried various treasures, and its cargo included a large quantity of marble and bronze. James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, collected the valuable materials during a tour of Europe.

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The ship also carried rare art and natural curiosities owned by John La Touche, one of the wealthiest Irish bankers of his time.

But the ship met its end when it sank 85 miles south of Dublin, its intended destination. The vessel had recently stopped in London after beginning its journey in Italy.

Underwater archaeologists may have found the Recovery, an 18th-century treasure ship lost off Wexford, Ireland. (Getty Images; Brian and Kevin Martin via Pen News)

Six people died in the wreck, including the ship’s captain and two of his sons. 

The ship was largely forgotten about before researchers caught wind of its likely remains.

During a recent interview with Pen News, O’Byrne said that, one day, his side-scan sonar “picked up an unusual object on the seabed.”

“The ship was at the mercy of the sea.”

He told the agency, “At first I thought it was a torpedo, because the image would be slightly distorted on the side-scan sonar.”

But the shipwreck revealed its age when his crew spotted a copper sheath on the vessel. In the 18th century, copper was used by the Royal Navy to protect wooden ships from barnacles and shipworms.

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“When we went [underwater], it turned out to be a 20-foot-long rudder covered in copper sheet,” O’Byrne recalled. “Now that really identified her.”

He added, “In 1773, when she was built in Chester, the Recovery was one of about 200 ships out of the British merchant fleet of about 10,000 that had their hulls covered in copper sheathing.”

Anchor underwater

Marine archaeologists also uncovered an 18th-century anchor at the wreckage site. (Brian and Kevin Martin via Pen News)

“Any wrecks that we have a record of weren’t copper sheathed.”

Using a drone, researchers also spotted a piece of timber coming out of a sandbank, which O’Byrne said was “definitely from a ship.”

“It could have been any bit of timber but when I told the pilot to drive closer, I could see that there was a timber nail hole in that plank,” he said. 

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“I told one of the boys to go down and take that up, and when he did, there was a two-foot by one-foot copper sheath nailed to the timber.”

The team also uncovered an anchor, timber fittings and artifacts including a teapot and inkwells.

Some of the findings offer a glimpse into how the ship went down: For example, the rudder was found around 800 feet away from the shipwreck.

Diver surveying shipwreck site

Experts believe the ship carried valuable cargo that may still be in good condition. (Brian and Kevin Martin via Pen News)

“We reckon when she came around Carnsore Point, she came into shallower water, and pulled the rudder and part of the stern off,” O’Byrne described.

“And then the ship was at the mercy of the sea.”

The rudder was also covered in copper. It may be the only 18th-century copper-covered rudder that’s ever been found.

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“We’ve searched and, so far, nobody can tell us that there is a copper-covered rudder in existence from that time anywhere,” O’Byrne added.

“It could be the only one of its time.”

The true value of the cargo is unknown, though La Touche’s possessions have fetched vast sums of money in the past. One sculpture that he commissioned sold for £520,000 in 1997, which equals roughly $1 million U.S. dollars today.

Diver smiling while holding tea kettle

Marine expert Edmond O’Byrne’s team discovered the likely remains of a ship called the Recovery — which also included a teapot. (Brian and Kevin Martin via Pen News)

O’Byrne also believes that, with the shipwreck sitting 65 feet below the service, the cargo may still be in good condition.

“If they had to journey some distance on land to get to the port and then be loaded and then unloaded, they would have to be packed very, very well,” he observed. 

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“So there is a chance that something would survive.”

For now, the ship is going to remain undisturbed while O’Byrne’s team monitors it to see if any shifting sands reveal its treasures.

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Recovered shipwrecks are of great interest to marine historians. Earlier this year, a centuries-old ship was found beneath a former fish market in Spain.

Last month, the Wisconsin Historical Society announced the discovery of a 19th-century tugboat in Lake Michigan.

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Gaming

The 6 Best Latte Machines for Automatic Espresso Drinks (2025)

The drip coffee is meh, granted. But more than perhaps any semiautomatic machine in its price range, the Ninja Cafe Luxe Premier is geared to absolute ease and versatility—with an intuitive digital user interface that helps you along. Depending on your chosen drink, the Ninja Luxe will recommend the appropriate grind size on its display screen and help you dial it in. (This may take a couple tries.) Milk frothing is easy, and the automatic milk frothing is shockingly good. Plus, you can froth cold foam, for silly cold-foam drinks. See what I mean? Ninja is fun. We look forward to testing Ninja’s new Cafe Luxe Pro ($750), which costs a little more but adds a welcome auto-tamper and hot water spout.

Best Budget Latte Machine

Mr. Coffee

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This Mr. Coffee machine was once our top pick. Why? Because it sits so nicely at a comfortable intersection where ease of use meets automation and affordability. This is about the lowest-priced machine you can ever expect to find with automatic milk frothing at the press of a single button, with options of late foam or cappuccino froth. Just load fine-ground coffee into the portafilter, tamp it down, and twist it on. The machine will mix up a cappuccino or a latte macchiato at the press of a button.

This machine has a forgiving (but not overly intense or nuanced) pressurized portafiter, which means it will work with almost any “espresso-grind” coffee from your local café or the grocery store. Just note you’ll still get a better shot of espresso if you buy a grinder and use fresh beans from a good specialty roaster. But all in all, this is about the easiest $200 latte machine we know. Like, the hardest thing about it is that the milk canister can be removed and stored in the fridge, and you have to clean it out once a week.

Best Budget Superautomatic Espresso Machine

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Cafe Affetto Automatic Espresso Machine

The Cafe Affetto is one of the few fully automatic machines that we’ve enjoyed in this price range. The Affetto features a built-in steaming wand, produces 20 bars of pump pressure to ensure your espresso is fully extracted, and is a slick little machine. It’s very slim and fits comfortably on a small apartment countertop without having to rearrange everything. Because coffee production is automated, you just need to fill the water tank and put whole beans in the hopper, and you’re good to go. You can brew one or two shots with just the press of a button, and there’s a programmable button to create your favorite drinks (like an Americano with just the right amount of water).

The milk frother does a lot of the work on its own. Just pour some of your favorite milk into the frothing pitcher, submerge the wand, and hit the steam button. If you’re new to frothing milk, you don’t even need to move the pitcher to produce a creamy and consistent microfoam. We tested the frother with dairy milk, oat milk, and soy milk. It produced soft and creamy café-grade froth each time. Just make sure it’s topped up with water and beans and that you clean out the spent grounds container regularly, and it works like a dream. —Jaina Grey

Best Semiautomatic Espresso Machine

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The Breville Oracle Jet (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is my favorite of the seven new espresso machines I’ve tried so far this year. It’s the one I recommend as my top pick in WIRED’s guide to the Best Espresso Machines, over other estimable contenders from Breville that include the Barista Touch ($1,000) and the Barista Pro ($849). And it’s the one that best mixes full-flavored, nuanced espresso with the ease of machine-guided, touchscreen operation. It’s versatile, it’s powerful, its PID controller means the temperature is quite stable, and it makes absolutely lovely cups—espresso that’s denser and more intensely aromatic than the coffee made by any other machine on this list, whether in bringing out the fruity berry notes in an anaerobic light roast, or the dark chocolate of a roasty Italian.

In the finicky, often difficult world of classic home espresso machines, the Oracle Jet is a paragon of simplicity and machine-guided brewing: It’s a miracle that one can so easily pull such delicious and nuanced shots, that remain so sensitive to the character of each bean. But that sensitivity still makes the Oracle Jet a little more finicky than other machines on this list. And while the automatic milk frothing is quite good, it’s not as failsafe as our favorites here. (I still like steaming milk manually on the Breville, versus using the auto-froth.) But if you want espresso that will distill he beauteous character of fresh-roasted beans but still don’t want to try overly hard—on a machine whose intuitive touchscreen tutorial will guide you to lovely flat whites and capps? This is your huckleberry.

Best Pod Latte and Cappuccino Machine

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Former WIRED reviewer Jaina Grey loved this machine. It’s the best Keurig that Grey ever used (8/10, WIRED Recommends), but it especially offers a terrific frother. (Though check out our updated pod coffee maker guide for more recommendations.) This K-Café doesn’t technically make espresso shots, because grounds aren’t pulled under pressure. But it does make a delicious 2-ounce “espresso style” shot that can taste almost as strong. So why is it in this guide? The frother. It has three settings—cold, latte, and cappuccino—and it’ll froth milk to perfection with the tap of a button, ready to be poured from the stainless steel carafe. It’s a latte maker that’s simple to use and easy to clean—and the milk is so beautifully foamed that it’s tempting to use this device to froth milk for espresso made on other machines.

Best Handheld Milk Frother

Sometimes making a whole latte or cappuccino using an automated machine can be a time suck. Not to mention, sometimes all you really want is frothy milk. That’s where milk frothers come in. These machines beat air into milk, or milk substitutes, to get that nice creamy froth. Former WIRED Reviewer Jaina Grey loved this handheld from Subminimal, a highly specialized immersion blender that makes properly textured creamy, light, airy, wonderful milk. One screen makes fine-textured milk. One makes “ultra-fine.” But note that Subminimal has also added a milk frothing pitcher called the Nanofoamer Pro ($159) that costs a bit more, but is currently sitting prettily atop our guide to the Best Milk Frothers.

Other Automated Latte and Cappuccino Machines We Liked

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  • Photograph: Pete Cottell

The delta between home espresso machines and the commercial workhorses used by busy third-wave shops is still thousands of dollars, but that hasn’t stopped both beloved brands and scrappy upstarts from infiltrating the space with more approachable units. Skip the junk and level up to the Casabrews 5700PRO (7/10, WIRED Review), which offers an unfussy take on the art of homemade espresso drinks.

Instead of bewildering noobs with a million settings and onboard tutorials, this 12 x 11 x 16-inch tank of a machine keeps it simple with easily accessible controls for things like temperature and dose volume for extraction, and run time for the onboard grinder. It’s a single-boiler machine, not a dual boiler, which means you can’t froth your latte milk at the same time as pulling a shot, but the texture of the frothed milk is perfectly malleable and up to snuff for a basic leaf or rosetta pattern.

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Health Fitness

Četiri dodatka prehrani koja osobe s hipertenzijom trebaju izbjegavati

OSOBE s visokim krvnim tlakom moraju pažljivo birati ne samo što jedu, već i koje dodatke prehrani uzimaju. Iako mnogi dodaci mogu imati korisne učinke, neki sastojci mogu pogoršati stanje, povećati rizik od komplikacija ili ometati djelovanje lijekova za hipertenziju. Nutricionisti i dijetetičari često upozoravaju da se i dodaci prehrani, kao i lijekovi, trebaju koristiti s oprezom – posebno kod osoba s postojećim zdravstvenim problemima poput povišenog tlaka. Dakle, ovo su neki od dodataka koje, prema raznim stručnjacima, ljudi s hipertenzijom trebaju izbjegavati.

1. Suplementi koji sadrže kofein

Dodaci prehrani za energiju, sagorijevanje masnoća ili sportski učinak često sadrže kofein – sastojak koji može povisiti krvni tlak. Prema savjetima stručnjaka za prehranu, osobe s hipertenzijom trebale bi izbjegavati kofein u obliku kapsula ili prahova jer njegova koncentracija može biti znatno viša nego u kavi ili čaju. Nagli skokovi tlaka mogu predstavljati opasnost, osobito ako osoba već uzima antihipertenzive.

2. Gospina trava (Hypericum perforatum)

Iako se često koristi kao prirodni antidepresiv, gospina trava može ometati djelovanje mnogih lijekova, uključujući one za tlak. Prema riječima raznih nutricionista i dijetetičara, ovaj biljni dodatak može potaknuti razgradnju lijekova u jetri, čime se smanjuje njihova učinkovitost. Osim toga, može izazvati porast tlaka ako se kombinira s određenim vrstama terapije.

3. Suplementi s visokim dozama omega-3 masnih kiselina

Iako umjeren unos omega-3 masnih kiselina može biti koristan za zdravlje srca, visoke doze mogu izazvati nuspojave kod osoba koje uzimaju lijekove za tlak. Neki stručnjaci upozoravaju da omega-3 u velikim količinama može sniziti krvni tlak previše, što može biti rizično u kombinaciji s antihipertenzivima. Zato je važno ne uzimati visoke doze na svoju ruku, već uvijek u dogovoru s liječnikom.

4. Suplementi s vitaminom E u visokim dozama

Vitamin E često se uzima zbog svojih antioksidativnih svojstava, ali u većim količinama može djelovati kao razrjeđivač krvi i utjecati na tlak. Prema savjetima dijetetičara, osobe s povišenim krvnim tlakom, osobito one koje već uzimaju lijekove poput antikoagulansa, trebale bi izbjegavati visoke doze ovog vitamina bez stručnog nadzora. Dugotrajna uporaba može povećati rizik od krvarenja i dodatno zakomplicirati regulaciju tlaka.

Ako imate visok krvni tlak, preporučuje se da prije uzimanja bilo kojeg dodatka prehrani konzultirate liječnika ili registriranog savjetnika za prehranu.

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