Previously unreleased footage shows off the watershed tech used at the site's earliest expeditions. Taken at the site of the RMS Titanic in 1986, nine months after it was first discovered, more than 80 minutes of previously unreleased footage of the second expedition to the wreckage have been made …
Shipwrecked!
With help from self-driving boats and powerful sonar, the missing 19th century ship was finally discovered. A 191-foot-long sunken ship missing beneath the waves of Lake Huron for almost 130 years has been discovered nearly intact with the help of self-driving boats and high powered sonar imaging. At …
The massive lake system is full of ships taken down in seasonal storms, now preserved by cold fresh water. Snow and waves sprayed the famous Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975, as the ship traversed through a violent fall storm over Lake Superior. The ship, which had set out the day before to …
The Mary Rose, built in 1511, was one of the largest ships in the English fleet at the time. In 1982, before the eyes of watching television cameras, the wooden remains of the 16th-century English warship Mary Rose were lifted from its underwater grave. Since then, it’s proven a veritable time …
The USS Samuel B. Roberts was found off the coast of the Philippines last week. These are the tools explorers used to locate it. Last week, ocean research company Caladan Oceanic and travel company EYOS Expedition announced the discovery of what it claims to be the deepest shipwreck yet: the USS …
Iron-eating bacteria were among the thousands of microbes dwelling within the shipwreck. Thousands of vessels are submerged in the waters off the coast of North Carolina. The Outer Banks, with its strong currents and storms that create treacherous conditions for ships, is nicknamed “The Graveyard of …