Two thousand years ago, this ship was crossing the Mediterranean Sea full of its cargo of amphorae -- large terracotta pots which were used in the Roman Empire for transporting wine and olive oil. For some reason, it never made it to its destination.

There have been so many shipwrecks and sinkings in the Great Lakes, it’s just about impossible to find them all. One of ‘em that was discovered in 2018 was the 1928 wreck of the Manasoo in Lake Huron. The ship was sitting in a little over 200 feet of water in the Georgian Bay near Owen Sound, Canada.

In the fifth century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt and wrote of unusual river boats on the Nile. Twenty-three lines of his Historia, the ancient world’s first great narrative history, are devoted to the intricate description of the construction of a “baris”. For centuries, scholars have argued over his account because there was no archaeological evidence that such ships ever existed. Now there is. A “fabulously preserved” wreck in the waters around the sunken port city of Thonis-Heracleion has revealed just how accurate the historian was.

The crew of the Fitzgerald endured a bruising operational tempo in the months leading up to the fatal collision that left little time for training. But despite all that, they saved their ship and got her back home. By Geoff Ziezulewicz.

At the bottom of a sacred lake two massive ships lay in ruin, remnants of a mad emperor. By Paul Cooper.

The vessel dates back 2,400 years to the days of ancient Greece. By Colin Dwyer.

When the L.C. Waldo ran hard aground on Gull Rock, 22 crew, 2 women and a dog had to figure out how to survive for 90 hours while a November blizzard raged outside. By Tanda Gmiter.

We know how to stop solid minerals converting to a liquid state mid voyage – so why does it still happen? By Susan Gourvenec.

Nigeria's waters have become a dumping ground for shipwrecks and the people living on the coastline say the unserviceable vessels abandoned by local and international shipping companies are making their lives hard. By Sam Olukoya.

"Batavia Revealed: Shipwreck Psycho" explores the bloody truth behind one of Australia’s worst mass murders, investigating [the] horrifying tale of one of the world’s most terrifying and gruesome shipwreck stories of all time. By Maria Lewis. [Actual program available only in Straya.]

A recording salvaged from three miles deep tells the story of the doomed “El Faro,” a cargo ship engulfed by a hurricane. By William Langewiesche.

The fascinating remains of a historic 18th century ship have washed ashore on a Florida beach. The 48-foot wooden hull of a gigantic shipwreck was discovered by Julie Turner and her son Patrick, eight, on Ponte Vedra Beach around 8am Tuesday. Little did the pair realize that the wreck was centuries old and has been hailed as the 'holy grail' of shipwrecks.

“Si recte calculum ponas, ubique naufragium est.” (If you reckon correctly, shipwreck is everywhere.) — Gaius Petronius. By A.E. Stallings.

Ahram Online reports that three Roman shipwrecks and an ancient Egyptian barque dedicated to Osiris were discovered in ancient Alexandria’s eastern harbor in the Mediterranean Sea. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the joint team of researchers, made up of scientists from the ministry’s department of underwater archaeology and the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology, recovered a crystal head thought to represent Marc Antony, and gold coins dating to the reign of Emperor Augustus.

Study off coast of Sri Lanka, where massive vessel that was part of Chinese adventurer’s fleet sank 600 years ago, has delivered ‘positive results.’ By Stephen Chen.

The 700-year-old shipwreck was found at a construction site in China, buried beneath silt and mud. It may have sank after being hit and taking on water. By Owen Jarus.

Britain has announced it will give Canada the shipwrecks of the British explorer John Franklin, who perished with his crew while trying to chart the North-west Passage through the Arctic in the 1840s. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were found in 2014 and 2016 about 30 miles (48km) apart near King William Island in the Canadian Arctic, about 1,200 miles north-west of Toronto.

Dozens of perfectly preserved ancient shipwrecks have been found at the bottom of the Black Sea. A total of 60 wrecks were discovered dating back as far as 2,500 years, including galleys from the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires.

In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him – for 438 days. This is his story

115 years ago, divers found a hunk of bronze off a Greek island. It changed our understanding of human history. By Brian Resnick.