huffingtonpost.com —
After 132 years, a long-lost shipwreck has been located at the bottom of Lake Superior, and it appears to be impeccably preserved. Over the summer, a five-man team, including a diver and historian, located the J.S. Seaverns freighter that sank in Canada...
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marketwatch.com —
“Great news: We have found the Galleon San Jose.” Thus what could be the biggest finding of a sunken treasure hoard in years was made by the government of Colombia in a single Twitter message on Friday evening. President Juan Manuel Santos...
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freep.com —
A group of explorers recently found a historic steamship off the coast of Muskegon more than a century after it sank. Members of the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association say the John V. Moran is one of the deepest and most intact wrecks found in Lake...
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youtube.com —
There are over 3 million shipwrecks sitting on the ocean bottom. Sunken after an accident, due to unfavorable weather conditions or war, some of them have been scattered across the oceanic panorama for centuries. Shipwrecks are very popular and...
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nationalgeographic.com —
One of the most famous ships lost in the 19th century has been located in the Arctic, the Canadian government announced Tuesday, prompting Prime Minister Stephen Harper to declare that "one of Canada's greatest mysteries" has been solved. The shipwreck...
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independent.co.uk —
Shipwreck found off coast of Haiti thought to be one of the most significant underwater discoveries in history. More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators...
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duluthnewstribune.com —
Nearly 100 years after the Henry B. Smith freighter went down in Lake Superior during a November storm, a group of shipwreck hunters believes it has found the ship — largely intact. The Duluth News Tribune reports the group found the wreck last...
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courant.com —
After two days trapped in freezing cold water and breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tugboat under the ocean, Harrison Okene was sure he was going to die. Then a torch light pierced the darkness.
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duluthnewstribune.com —
The 100 year old ore boat Henry B. Smith has been discovered in the deep depths of Lake Superior.
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core77.com —
In the early 1980s, Frenchman Franck Goddio was working in finance. But rather than searching for treasure in spreadsheets, he began looking elsewhere: underwater. With a passion for underwater archaeology, Goddio quit his finance gig, founded the...
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lohud.com —
19th Century Coal Barge found at construction site of new Tappan Zee bridge
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freep.com —
One of the Great Lakes largest missing steamers found in Lake Huron
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alaskadispatch.com —
The US Coast Guard continued Thursday to search for Robin Walbridge, one of two sailors lost when the 180-foot HMS Bounty, a 1960 replica of a famous 18th-century merchant vessel, foundered and sank in the throes of hurricane Sandy on Monday. But as the...
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slate.com —
Forget “women and children first”—it might have worked on the Titanic, but it’s usually every man for himself, says Mikael Elinder, an economist at Uppsala University in Sweden. His paper “Gender, Social Norms, and Survival...
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huffingtonpost.com —
According to Discovery News, treasure-hunting company Odyssey Marine Exploration has salvaged 48 tons of silver treasure from the sunken cargo ship sitting 15,420 feet deep in the North Atlantic. The treasure hunters hauled in a whopping 1,203 bars of...
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nytimes.com —
Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society are exploring shipwrecks off the coast of New York to help architects accurately design a new facility at the New York Aquarium.
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cnn.com —
wooden ship believed to be over 200 years old was discovered during a recent exploration of the northern Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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nwsource.com —
The Supreme Court has again steered clear of an international dispute over the treasure salvaged from a 19th century shipwreck. The justices on Monday rejected appeals from the deep-sea explorers who found the wreck of a sunken Spanish galleon and Peru,...
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nationalgeographic.com —
James Cameron and fellow researchers fine-tune their theory of how the Titanic looked as it sank into the freezing Atlantic on April 15,1912. The two-night television event entitled Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron starts on April 8 at 8 p.m....
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theatlantic.com —
For four decades, the engines that powered Apollo 11 to the moon have lain at the bottom of the Atlantic. But they'll soon rise again. Amazon's Jeff Bezos Discovered the Historic Apollo 11 Rocket Engines at the Bottom of the Sea More at Jeff Bezos blog:...
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marinetraffic.com —
See the actual posistion coordinates of Ships all across the world, live on Google Maps. Vessel positions may be up to one hour old.
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dailymail.co.uk —
Astonishing unseen photographs of the aftermath of the Titanic disaster have emerged after 99 years. The black and white pictures show an iceberg at the site of the tragedy - and may even be the one that sunk the luxury liner. Another image shows two...
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nytimes.com —
In 1941, a Nazi torpedo tore a hole in a British merchant ship carrying a fortune in silver to England from India. The ship was part of a convoy headed for Liverpool, but it went down about 300 miles southwest of Ireland, disappearing in icy waters nearly...
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msn.com —
Swedish explorer reports circular anomaly, but is it a 'flying saucer'? Hardly An ocean exploration team led by Swedish researcher Peter Lindberg has found what some are suggesting is a crashed flying saucer. Lindberg's team, which has had success in the...
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msn.com —
A team of underwater explorers has found two long-lost shipwrecks in northeastern Lake Huron.
Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary on Wednesday announced the discovery of the schooner M.F. Merrick and the steel freighter Etruria in deep water off Presque Isle.
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