5 Sunken Roman Ships Found near Italian Island Ventotene

Archaeologists found 5 ancient Roman shipwrecks off a small Italian island Ventotene. The sunken ships date from the 1st century BC to 5th century AD. The ships from the Roman-era are very well presevered as they lie untouched between 330 to 490 feet underwater. The discovery...

Lost WWII Sub Found, Navy Credits Family

"Lost WWII Sub Found, Navy Credits FamilyUSS Grunion Last Heard From July, 1942""PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- After a nearby family worked to find the wreck, the Navy confirmed that the wreckage of a sunken WWII...

Divers get their fix with sunken ships

You've heard about shipwreck diving., but now it's becoming more mainstream. there are about a dozen large shipwrechs of the Palos Verde coast alone. Recently discovered was the USS Plawan, at a depth of 140 feet....

American Revolution warship found in Lake Ontario

Apparently they're not going to try to raise the ship but what a treasure trove of memorabilia it must hold.  It will be fascinating to see what the divers will find in coming years."SYRACUSE, N.Y. ...

Sailors Trapped in Sunken Tugboat

A Ukranian tugboat sunk off the coast of Hong Kong and is now lying upside-down 35 meters (115 ft) below the surface. Rescue crews are attempting to move the vessel to shallower waters in hopes of rescuing anyone still alive onboard.Update: no further word on the fate of the...

Oil tanker capsizes in Binh Thuan, ten missing

"VietNamNet Bridge – The oil tanker Duc Tri upturned off the coast of Binh Thuan Province. Ten sailors are missing and over 1,700 tons of oil is threatening to spread along the southern coast.   The ship was on its way from HCM City to the central city of Da Nang when...

Sunken freighter off Ibiza leaking oil

"Ibiza, Spain - More than six weeks after a freighter went down off the coast of the Spanish tourist island of Ibiza, the wreck is again leaking oil, reports said Sunday. A 300-metre-long oil slick washed ashore...

Oil Spill Hits Ibiza

The beaches of Talamanca, Ses Figueretes and Platja de Bossa were closed to the public as cleanup crews worked to purge the sands of oil washed ashore from a sunken vessel."Oil leaking from a sunken ship has...

Surrender the Booty: Spain Sues over Sunken Treasure

Spain claims that, should the sunken vessel found by Odyssey Marine Exploration prove to be Spanish in origin, then the treasure that went down with it rightfully belongs to Spain. Odyssey maintains that the ship...

Study Busts Myth that New Orleans is Sunken City

"Posted by The Times-Picayune April 20, 2007 9:50PM, By Leslie Williams, Staff writer A yearlong topographic and demographic study of New Orleans arrives this month like the latest installment of the television...

British wreck could yield $1bn in treasure

"Up to a billion dollars worth of gold and silver on a sunken 17th-century English warship may soon be recovered following an agreement with Spanish authorities."

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