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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.
3,000-year-old fleet discovered in a Cambridgeshire quarry on the outskirts of Peterborough
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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...
Via Steve Stauch
Core77.com (blog) Underwater Archaeologist Franck Goddio Finds 1600-Year-Old City that ... Core77.com (blog) But rather than searching for treasure in spreadsheets, he began looking elsewhere: underwater.
Titanic exhibit sails into Great Lakes Science Center WKYC-TV 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.
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.
American Waters Have a Dirty Shipwreck Problem Motherboard (blog) 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.
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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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...
Two remarkable ships may show that the Viking storm was brewing long before their assault on England and the continent
Photographer Hamid Ran won best in show out of thousands of entries from 15 countries. Categories include sharks, reefscapes, surfs, animal portrait and divers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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ABC7Chicago.com WWI German submarine has an underwater Lake Michigan grave ABC7Chicago.com 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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Great Lakes Echo “Sunken Treasure”: Documentary explores Great Lakes shipwrecks, promotes ... Great Lakes Echo With hundreds of shipwrecks scattered across the bottom of the Great Lakes, divers have access to an unrivaled underwater playground.
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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