A team of dedicated researchers were stunned after they recently came face-to-face with a ship that hadn't been seen in 168 years.

The discovery of the steamship Le Lyonnais was recently announced by Atlantic Wreck Salvage (AWS). AWS, which owns and operates the vessel D/V Tenacious, found the ship off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts.

The ship was built in 1855 and only sailed for a year before sinking on its first return voyage to Le Havre, France, on November 2, 1856. The vessel collided with a ship called the Adriatic, which was scuffed during the collision and sailed away from the scene.

Le Lyonnais was left with a small hole that eventually sank the ship days later. Out of the ship's 132 passengers and crew, 114 people died – and the few people who survived the wreck were stuck in a lifeboat for a week.

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Speaking to Fox News Digital, AWS's Jennifer Sellitti said that it was "difficult to explain" how she felt when her team found the ship. She and her partner Joe Mazraani had been searching for the vessel for eight years.

"For the team, the feeling was a mixture of relief and joy, but there was also a sense of ‘What’s next?’" she explained. "For me, personally, I have spent so long trying to learn and tell the stories of the people who sailed aboard Le Lyonnais that finding her felt like closure – like a way to help those who died so long ago to finally rest in peace."

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Sellitti, who works as a New Jersey public defender in addition to operating D/V Tenacious, added that she was always positive that the wreck still existed – but did have doubts about whether she and her team would find it.

"The North Atlantic is notoriously brutal to shipwrecks," she said. "Storms, currents, shifting sands, and fishing gear can rip these wrecks apart. Many old wrecks are completely buried by the ocean over time."

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"The Nantucket Shoals often make it difficult to find shipwrecks because the bottom geology can mask them on sonar records," Sellitti added. "We were also concerned that, when we found her, she would be off the Continental Shelf in more than a thousand feet of water."

The shipwreck enthusiast added that the story of Le Lyonnais is more than just a shipwreck. Her forthcoming book, which is called "The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-and-Run Off the Coast of Nantucket," delves into detail about the shipwreck and will be released in February.

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"The 1850s was the time when ships were transitioning from sail to steam," Sellitti explained. "That transition caused merchants and insurers and nations around the world to grapple with issues like what happens when a sailing vessel and a steam powered vessel meet at sea, who is responsible when ships from different countries collide, and what laws apply on the high seas."

Though Sellitti said that the ship has "not survived well," she is looking forward to fully documenting the wreckage, which will likely take years.

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"Shipwrecks are remnants of bygone eras," the maritime expert said. "They are frozen moments in time that connect us to history in a way that stories alone cannot."

The Miami-Dade Police Department on Monday released officers’ bodycam footage of the incident involving Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill.

Miami-Dade Police Director Stephane V. Daniels said more than an hour of footage was going to be released as part of a commitment to transparency. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, and an officer involved in the situation was placed on "administrative duties."

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The footage starts with police officers pulling up next to Hill’s car and telling him he was speeding. Hill asks how fast he was going but is instructed to pull over.

The officer knocks on the window and Hill tells the officer not to knock on his window like that as he hands over his driver’s license. Hill then tells the officer to give him his ticket and rolls the window back up. The officer demands that Hill keep his window down.

"Keep your window down, or I’m going to get you out of the car. As a matter of fact, get out of the car," the officer says.

A second officer threatens to break the window.

"We’re not playing this game," another officer says as the bodycam shows one officer opening the door, reaching into Hill’s car and pulling him out with a third officer’s help.

"Hey Drew, I’m getting arrested Drew," Hill is heard saying, apparently speaking with his agent, Drew Rosenhaus.

One officer says, "When we tell you to do something, you do it, not what you want but when we tell you. You’re a little f---ing confused."

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"Take me to jail, bruh. Do what you got to do," Hill responds while lying on the ground.

A bystander in a separate vehicle near the incident appears to ask what is happening with Hill. The wide receiver responds, "I didn’t do nothing."

Officers guided Hill to a sitting position on the curb next to his car. Hill told them he had surgery on his knee as he was going down, and one officer asked if he had surgery on his ears.

Another officer on the scene asks the officer whose bodycam footage was released if he knows the man who is sitting on the ground. The officer on the bodycam says he doesn't know who he is, and the other officer responds, "That’s one of the Dolphins’ star players."

The officer wearing the bodycam explains to a superior what happened. In the background, Hill is yelling, "I’m just being a Black man, that’s it."

Hill was issued traffic citations and left in the passenger seat of his car with Rosenhaus.

Dolphins defensive lineman Calais Campbell then walks up to the scene with his hands up about four minutes into the footage. He is ordered to back away from the scene or that he will be handcuffed as well. Campbell says he wants to know what happened.

Campbell was later placed in handcuffs.

The officer who addressed Campbell also spoke to Jonnu Smith, who had pulled over to make sure everything was OK. The officer demanded Smith’s license.

The lawyers for the officer who was placed on administrative duties following the incident released a statement to Fox News Digital later Monday.

"While we believe the decision to place our client on leave was premature, we respect Director Daniels' call for a thorough review of the incident involving Mr. Tyreek Hill, a stance we fully support," lawyers Ignacio Alvarez of ALGO Law Firm and Israel Reyes of the Reyes Law Firm said. "We urge all parties to refrain from making public statements that may misrepresent our client’s actions and mislead the public about Mr. Hill's detainment. 

"We call for our client’s immediate reinstatement, and a complete, thorough, and objective investigation, as Director Daniels has also advocated. Our client will not comment until this investigation is concluded and the facts are fully revealed."

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