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The wreck of the HMS Terror
The second of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic nearly 170 years ago during a storied expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage has been found.
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Nunavut Shipwreck Confirmed as Sir John Franklin's HMS Terror
A shipwreck found off the shores of Nunavut's King William Island is indeed HMS Terror, lost in Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition, Parks Canada confirms.
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A Fatal Mistake: The Sinking of El Faro
On October 1, 2015, the container ship El Faro sailed directly into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. When it sank it took the lives of all 33 aboard, including eight New Englanders. Rachel Slade wanted to know what happened and why. You will not soon forget what she found.
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Wreck of German U-boat found off coast of Stranraer [Scotland]
The wreck of a German U-boat that sank almost 100 years ago is discovered by engineers laying subsea power cables.
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Explorers find more than 40 ancient shipwrecks in the Black Sea
Amazingly well preserved due to low oxygen levels in the water.
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Two World War II Shipwrecks Mysteriously Vanished From the Bottom of the Ocean
A pair of warships lost during a historic 1942 naval battle have completely disappeared from their resting places at the bottom of the Java Sea. Large portions of a third ship are also missing.
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Unfathomable
Sunken treasure, death-defying adventure, sibling rivalry: How Charles and John Deane invented modern deep-sea diving and saved the British Empire. By James Nestor.
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When a burning cruise ship washed up on the Jersey Shore, it brought a murder mystery with it
It was one of the century's most sensational maritime disasters — and fodder for countless conspiracy theories.
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Sunken Spanish Ship Is Found With Treasure Worth $1.5 Billion And Will Soon Be Set In A Museum
Check the first glimpse of the wreck of the San Jose after a British warship near Columbia sunk it, years back. According to the President of Columbia, deep sea divers have found the wreck of the galleon which was with 600 people aboard when it sank. It has been 300 years since the wreckage. Upto 11 million gold coins, precious stones and emeralds were being carried by the ship. In 1708, due to an attack by the Royal Navy, close to the walled port city of Cartagena in the Caribbean Sea, the ship submerged in the coast of Baru near the remote Rosario islands. Via: dailymail
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NY Explorers Find 1872 Shipwreck of Rare Great Lakes Vessel
The 144-year-old shipwreck of a rare sailing vessel that typically wasn't used for long voyages on the Great Lakes has been found in deep water off Lake Ontario's New York shore, according to two underwater explorers. Western New York-based explorers Jim Kennard and Roger Pawlowski announced Friday that they identified the wreck as the Black Duck in September, three years after initially coming across it while using side-scan sonar in 350 feet of water off Oswego, New York.
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Morrell shipwreck 50 years ago killed eight local men
The ill-fated ship had left the Bethlehem Steel Corp. in Lackawanna, heading toward Minnesota to pick up some iron ore when it ran into a horrific storm packing winds exceeding 65 mph and creating 30-foot waves on frigid Lake Huron… By Gene Warner.
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Archeologists Are Planning to Sink This Ship Dozens of Times
In 1967, a team of archaeologists led by Michael Katzev dove to the bottom of the churning Aegean Sea. They were tipped off by a sponge diver who, about two years earlier, spotted something unusual a mile offshore of Kyrenia harbor… By Lorraine Boissoneault.
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A treasure hunter found 3 tons of sunken gold — and can’t leave jail until he says where it is
Tommy Thompson has already spent a year in jail for refusing to say what he did with one of the richest treasure finds in U.S. history. By Avi Selk.
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Wreck of 1840s slave ship mapped in 3D
The wreck of a former slave ship lying just off the coast of Perth is scoured by maritime archaeologists using new 3D technology. By Nicolas Perpitch.
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This real-life shipwreck from 200 years ago is worthy of Poldark
Of shipwreck, looting, drunken fighting on the beach and tragedy. By G_WIlkinson.
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The Wreck
On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history. More than a century later, a rookie treasure hunter went looking for the lost ship—and found a different kind of ruin. By David Wolman.
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High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas
The Race to Save the Cougar Ace. By Joshua Davis (Feb. 25, 2008)
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How the Discovery of Two Lost Ships Solved an Arctic Mystery
The Franklin expedition and all its crew disappeared in 1848. By Simon Worrall.
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Disunion: The Sinking of the Sultana
As John Wilkes Booth stepped into President Lincoln’s booth at Ford’s Theater...Union prisoners of war were heading home.... 2,100 of those soldiers, many sick, many barefoot, boarded the wooden side-wheeler steamboat Sultana....
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Where oil rigs go to die
When a drilling platform is scheduled for destruction, it must go on a thousand-mile final journey to the breaker’s yard. As one rig proved when it crashed on to the rocks of a remote Scottish island, this is always a risky business. By Tom Lamont.
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