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Sandy victim whose home was destroyed recovers 1976 class ring lost in the Bahamas

Sandy victim whose home was destroyed recovers 1976 class ring lost in the Bahamas | DiverSync | Scoop.it
The hurricane that took Robert De Vincenzi's home may have washed ashore a gem the Staten Island man had long forgotten about.
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Divers begin Lake Michigan expedition to find fabled Griffin ship

Divers begin Lake Michigan expedition to find fabled Griffin ship | DiverSync | Scoop.it
Divers began opening an underwater pit Saturday at a remote site in northern Lake Michigan that they say could be the resting place of the Griffin, a ship commanded by the 17th century French explorer La Salle.
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Eight bronze age boats surface at Fens creek in record find

Eight bronze age boats surface at Fens creek in record find | DiverSync | Scoop.it
3,000-year-old fleet discovered in a Cambridgeshire quarry on the outskirts of Peterborough
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Nigerian cook trapped for 3 days in sunken ship tells incredible story of survival

Nigerian cook trapped for 3 days in sunken ship tells incredible story of survival | DiverSync | Scoop.it
A cook says he “prayed about a hundred times” while he spent more than 60 hours trapped inside a sunken tugboat off of Nigeria, before making it out alive.
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Group denies accusation that it found Amelia Earhart’s missing plane

Group denies accusation that it found Amelia Earhart’s missing plane | DiverSync | Scoop.it
A Delaware aircraft preservation group denies a Wyoming man's claim that it found Amelia Earhart's missing plane and withheld the news so it could continue to raise money for the search.
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Shipwrecks will be lost warns private operator

Shipwrecks will be lost warns private operator | DiverSync | Scoop.it
Listen. More than 10,000 shipwrecks litter Canada's rugged Atlantic coast but the government is too poor to salvage them. Private operators would like to but cannot ever since the province of Nova Scotia passed a law three ...
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RAF Museum lifts Nazi bomber off floor of English Channel

RAF Museum lifts Nazi bomber off floor of English Channel | DiverSync | Scoop.it
A British Museum is finally hauling the only remaining Nazi Dornier bomber from the World War II Blitz on London from its watery resting place in the English Channel.
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Lake Michigan shipwreck: Team to excavate sunken Griffin ship in northern Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan shipwreck: Team to excavate sunken Griffin ship in northern Lake Michigan | DiverSync | Scoop.it

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — An organization that believes it has discovered the wreckage of the oldest known shipwreck in the Great Lakes has received a state permit to conduct a test excavation at the site in northern Lake Michigan, officials said...


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Underwater Archaeologist Franck Goddio Finds 1600-Year-Old City that ... - Core77.com (blog)

Underwater Archaeologist Franck Goddio Finds 1600-Year-Old City that ... - Core77.com (blog) | DiverSync | Scoop.it
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Underwater Archaeologist Franck Goddio Finds 1600-Year-Old City that ...
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But rather than searching for treasure in spreadsheets, he began looking elsewhere: underwater.
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Underwater Filmmaker 1080

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A great view of filmmaker and diver Laura James in Puget Sound. Visit http://www.pugetsoundstartshere.org/

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Titanic exhibit sails into Great Lakes Science Center - WKYC-TV

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Titanic exhibit sails into Great Lakes Science Center
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CLEVELAND -- The Great Lakes Science Center is diving deep into history with a new Titanic exhibit. "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" runs from June 1, 2013 - Jan.
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Try something new with your life…Scuba Dive !

Try something new with your life…Scuba Dive ! | DiverSync | Scoop.it
So… what to do this summer, what to do. First off, lets say we do something different ? Instead of making it the same summer you might do in previous years lets do something really stepping outside the box, boldly.
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American Waters Have a Dirty Shipwreck Problem - Motherboard (blog)

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American Waters Have a Dirty Shipwreck Problem
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Look no further than NOAA's Potentially Polluting Wrecks in US Waters project, which--you guesed it!--charts all known shipwrecks in American waters that pose serious marine risk.
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'Britain's Atlantis' found at bottom of North sea - a huge undersea kingdom swallowed by the sea in 6500BC

'Britain's Atlantis' found at bottom of North sea - a huge undersea kingdom swallowed by the sea in 6500BC | DiverSync | Scoop.it
Divers from oil companies have found remains of a 'drowned world' with a population of tens of thousands - which linked Britain to the continent and might once have been the 'real heartland' of Europe.
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Lake Michigan expedition hopes to find La Salle's long lost ship

Lake Michigan expedition hopes to find La Salle's long lost ship | DiverSync | Scoop.it
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.  — As a teenager, Steve Libert was mesmerized by a teacher’s stories of the brash 17th Century French explorer La Salle, who journeyed across the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi in a quest for a trade route to the Far East...
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The First Vikings - Archaeology Magazine

The First Vikings - Archaeology Magazine | DiverSync | Scoop.it
Two remarkable ships may show that the Viking storm was brewing long before their assault on England and the continent
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From the gaping jaws of a giant shark to the intricate dance of mating seahorses - the Best Underwater Photographer of the Year Competition reveals its winner

From the gaping jaws of a giant shark to the intricate dance of mating seahorses - the Best Underwater Photographer of the Year Competition reveals its winner | DiverSync | Scoop.it
Photographer Hamid Ran won best in show out of thousands of entries from 15 countries. Categories include sharks, reefscapes, surfs, animal portrait and divers.
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Amazing

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300-pound mako shark jumps into fishing boat off New Jersey coast

300-pound mako shark jumps into fishing boat off New Jersey coast | DiverSync | Scoop.it
A 303-pound, 8-foot, 4-inch mako shark jumped onto a 31-foot fishing boat off the coast of New Jersey, the Asbury Park Press reported.
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Eerily beautiful abandoned places

Eerily beautiful abandoned places | DiverSync | Scoop.it
A ship graveyard in Mauritania, a picturesque 16th century Italian village, a once-grand train station—we can't help but be mesmerized by these mysterious and beautiful abandoned places around the world.
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Victory at last... after 5,000 hours carving 104 miniature guns, 200ft of rope and 37 sails from a piece of Nelson's flagship

Victory at last... after 5,000 hours carving 104 miniature guns, 200ft of rope and 37 sails from a piece of Nelson's flagship | DiverSync | Scoop.it
The artist has put in over 5,000 man-hours into creating an exact copy of Lord Nelson's flagship that helped defeat the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar in 1805.
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this is incredible.

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100 years after ore boat disappeared in Lake Superior storm, searchers locate wreck | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

100 years after ore boat disappeared in Lake Superior storm, searchers locate wreck | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota | DiverSync | Scoop.it
Just a few months shy of 100 years after it sank with all hands in a monstrous November storm, it appears that the freighter Henry B. Smith — one of the most sought-after lost wrecks of Lake Superior — has been found.
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This is TOTALLY WICKED!  A touch too deep for a casual dive... a touch to shallow to be beyond the realm of possibility...

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Smuggler's Shipwrecked Steamer Found : DNews

Smuggler's Shipwrecked Steamer Found : DNews | DiverSync | Scoop.it
U.S. explorers announced today that they found a 19th-century steamer known to have smuggled guns and carried hundreds of thousands of dollars and possibly gold.

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E Lee Spence's curator insight, June 2, 5:50 PM

The news is now out. The steamer that I discovered is the wreck of the SS Ozama lost off Cape Romain in 1894. The wreck is straight run, almost 10 miles due south, out of the mouth of the Santee River.

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WWI German submarine has an underwater Lake Michigan grave - ABC7Chicago.com

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WWI German submarine has an underwater Lake Michigan grave
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WWI German submarine has an underwater Lake Michigan grave. Updated at 10:47 PM today. WWI German submarine has an underwater Lake Michigan grave.

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Darrin Jillson's curator insight, May 29, 11:14 PM

Interesting idea.

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“Sunken Treasure”: Documentary explores Great Lakes shipwrecks, promotes ... - Great Lakes Echo

“Sunken Treasure”: Documentary explores Great Lakes shipwrecks, promotes ... - Great Lakes Echo | DiverSync | Scoop.it
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With hundreds of shipwrecks scattered across the bottom of the Great Lakes, divers have access to an unrivaled underwater playground.
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Amelia Earhart's Plane Revealed in Sonar? : DNews

Amelia Earhart's Plane Revealed in Sonar? : DNews | DiverSync | Scoop.it
Analysis of sonar imaging from the southwestern Pacific reveals the outline of what could be the landing gear from Earhart's plane.
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