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• Archaeologists attack BP’s drilling plans
  By Emily Sharpe - The Art Newspaper From Greek and Roman shipwrecks to 20th-century warships; from ancient streets with intact buildings and mosaics to amphorae and ingots, the Mediterranean is a sub-aqueous treasure trove. So BP’s plans to drill exploratory oil wells off Libya has raised serious concerns among archaeologists, historians and heritage preser […]
• 'I've found Kingsford-Smith's plane': Damien Lay
  By Steve Creedy - The Australian After weathering typhoons, carbon-dioxide poisoning and sceptics, filmmaker Damien Lay is convinced he has found the Lady Southern Cross. Lay is planning to take family members to the site in November for the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of famed Australian aviator Charles Kingsford-Smith.Kingsford-Smith disappeared […]
• Sunken ship may contain piece of Bladensburg history
  By Daniel Leaderman - Gazette.net A piece of Bladensburg history may rise again after lying at the bottom of the Patuxent River for two hundred years.Over the next two years, archeologists will work near Upper Marlboro to excavate the wreck of a ship believed to be the USS Scorpion, part of an American flotilla that clashed with the British Navy just prior […]
• Divers steal from Holland 5 submarine off Sussex coast
  From BBC News Thieves have targeted a historically important submarine wreck lying in the English Channel, it has emerged.English Heritage said divers stole the torpedo tube hatch of the Holland 5, which sank six miles off Eastbourne in East Sussex in 1912.The theft was discovered during a licensed dive by the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) in June and […]
• Search is heating up for Bonhomme Richard
  By Joe Wojtas - The Day.com The Ocean Technology Foundation will launch its fifth expedition later this summer to search for the wreck of John Paul Jones' Revolutionary War ship the Bonhomme Richard in the North Sea.The two-week expedition may provide the best chance yet to find the famed ship off the northeast coast of England as the U.S. and French n […]
• Nautical disaster - First and only city shipwreck recalled
  By Cam Fuller - The Star Phoenix Saskatoon's most famous (OK, and only) shipwreck is finally a film. The Last Steamship, a documentary on the sinking of the S.S. City of Medicine Hat, has its maiden screening on Friday at the Broadway Theatre. "This seems to be a story that so many people don't know about," says director Leanne Schinkel. […]
• Efforts to keep clipper ship rejected
  By Andy Philip - Times of Malta A bid to keep the world’s oldest passenger clipper ship in Britain was rejected in favour of proposals to send it to Australia. The 145-year-old City of Adelaide, currently resting on a slipway on the west coast of Scotland, faced being broken up for display in a museum.Campaigners from Sunderland, where the ship was built, w […]
• Titanic wreckage to be raised digitally by new 3D map
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• Shipwrecked Madeira to be sold at auction
  By Deidre Woollard - Luxist From the depths of the ocean to your wine cellar. Spectrum Wine Auctions, Southern California's leading auction house of fine and rare wine, will hold its first sale of the fall 2010 auction season on September 24 including a bottle of shipwrecked Madeira wine dating to the 1800s. The bottle, which is estimated at $1200 was […]
• Historic Champagne Cargo Retrieved from Sea Bed
  From Yle.fi A group of Swedish divers have begun lifting to the surface a sunken consignment of champagne dating from the 1700’s from the seabed in the Åland Islands. Diving for the liquid treasure of around 80 champagne bottles started last week. The bottles are located in the hull of a vessel that sunk sometime in the eighteenth century. Both the vessel a […]
• Russian Mini-Sub Finds Possible Czarist Gold
  From VOA News Russian authorities say a mini-submarine plumbing the depths of Lake Baikal has found several shiny metal objects that could be evidence of the legendary Czarist gold lost nearly a century ago during the country's civil war.Explorers discovered the metal objects - described as resembling gold bullion - 400 meters below Lake Baikal's […]
• Dark secret of underwater treasure
  From RT (first published 1st of May, 2010) After a decade of painstaking underwater searching, the wreck of a Soviet World War II submarine has been found in the Baltic Sea.The vessel went down with its fifty-man crew in 1940 after being sunk by a mine laid by Finland. The relatives of those who died say it is a matter of honor to establish what really happ […]
• Treasure hunters comb world’s deepest lake
  By RT - Prime Time Russia The Russian Empire's lost gold may be buried at the bottom of Lake Baikal. That is the guess of an underwater research expedition, after it caught sight of something shiny.Expedition members think they may have found the gold that admiral Kolchak seized during the Civil War almost a century ago. This was part of the country […]
• Storied Arctic wrecks still missing after summer search
  By Randy Boswell - Postmedia News   Canadian government scientists hoping for a second major Arctic shipwreck discovery this summer came up empty after a six-day search for the Terror and Erebus, the lost vessels of the 19th-century Franklin Expedition.Parks Canada archeologist Ryan Harris, who led July's successful search for the wreck of the HMS Inv […]
• Could a Sunken WWII Tanker Leak Oil ?
  By Pete Hardie - Santa Barbara Independent Researchers hope to use sonar images of the SS Montebello to determine if the sunken vessel could leak oil. The Montebello Assessment Task Force sent a robotic submersible down to the wreck — which lies seven miles off California’s coast, near Cambria — last week. The vessel’s tanks are presumed to still contain th […]
• Representatives of Regina-based Droycon Bioconcepts diving to study the Titanic
  By Doyle Fox - Leader Post Lori Johnston and Sean Frisky won't be looking for the fictional necklace named "The Heart of the Ocean" when they dive down in a midget submersible vehicle to see the legendary British ocean liner Titanic in September.No, Johnston and Frisky will be representing Regina-based Droycon Bioconcepts and studying the bac […]
• Work Under Way To Restore Muskogee's USS Batfish
  By Lacie Lowry - The News On 6 A massive restoration project is under way in Muskogee on a true war hero. The USS Batfish is a World War II submarine that's highly decorated with military honors, but her condition has highly deteriorated over the years.A group of Active Duty and Reserve Chief Petty Officers of the United States Navy spent Saturday pain […]
• Crock pot of gold
  By Marilyn Ong -  The Star Sunken treasures ! The very words conjure up dazzling visions of romance and adventure on the high seas. Professor Augustine Vinh speaks on the perils of collecting sunken treasures.Internationally acclaimed sunken treasure hunter and collector Professor Augustine Vinh does not at all comply with one’s image of a treasure hunter — […]
• Treasure hunter plans to salvage mercury from wreck
  By Edward D. Murphy  - Kennebec Journal Treasure hunter Greg Brooks, who led a trouble-plagued relief mission to Haiti last winter, has set his sights on a salvage job with both business and humanitarian components.Brooks, who is from Gorham, wants to put his sea salvage skills to work removing an estimated 16,000 pounds of valuable mercury from a 66-year-o […]