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Sub Sea Research LLC has located off the coast of Cape Cod the shipwreck of the Port Nicholson, a British freighter secretly carrying 71 tons of platinum when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1942,the BBC reported.

Have the Ocean Explorer found another Stonehenge under water?

The wreckage of a British World War II submarine that sank 70 years ago in the Mediterranean Sea has been discovered seven miles away from Malta and in doing so a World War II British mystery has...

MV Rena which ran aground off the coast of New Zealand in October has broken up in heavy seas, sparking fears of a new oil spill.

The city of Stockholm, Sweden is a rather exotic part of the world. No wonder, it’s roots as a city began 1252. A lot has been going on over the centuries, and as the city grew, treasures and...

X-Ray Mag #46 - Jan 2012
Aircraft |  

Lying undisturbed in the deep water just off the fringing reef from the remote village of Boga Boga on the tip of Cape Vogel, is what many consider to be the best aircraft wreck in Papua New Guinea and possibly the world.

X-Ray Mag #40 - Jan 2011
WW2 |  

Not all sunken ships are the same. There are shallow wrecks, deep wrecks, very old barely discernable wrecks, wrecks sunk in war, wrecks sunk to make artificial reefs, even wrecks placed on the sea bed for Hollywood movies. While each ship has a...

X-Ray Mag #13 - Oct 2006
WW2 |  

Nowadays, the name Yamashiro could have different meanings depending on where you come from. If you live in Los Angeles, a huge pagoda near Hollywood is the oldest structure in California and hosts a famous restaurant named Yamashiro or “Mountain...

X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007
WW2 |  

As the Red Sea narrows at its northern extreme, a long thin arm of water stretches north towards the Mediterranean. It is the Gulf of Suez. Squeezed between the Sinai Peninsula and the Egyptian mainland, the entrance to the Gulf is marked by a...

X-Ray Mag #26 - Oct 2008

What does a fish exporter from Norway, a Chief Information Officer and diving instructor living in the Netherlands, a renowned lawyer based in Cyprus, a Project Manager working in Sweden, and an expat French Technical Diving Instructor have in...

X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005

It was one of those highly unlikely chains of unforeseable events that led us to Elba the pictoresque but somewhat mislaid lump of land in the Meditterean made famous by emperor Napoleon’s exile here: The fact that the treasureship Polluce was...

X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005

Like every grand tale of shipwreck and lost treasure, the story about the Polluce has it all. A paddlewheel steamboat shipwrecked in 1841, it is the centrepiece of a drama spanning more than one and a half centuries and has all the necessary...

X-Ray Mag #09 - Feb 2006

I checked in at Gatwick Airport on Saturday, the third of December, with three very large dive bags containing all the necessary equipment to make a descent, hopefully,
to the deepest wreck ever dived.

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Portuguese divers have found the remains of a Swiss aircraft that sank off Porto Novo, Madeira, in December 1977, BBC wrires

The wreck of a ship thought to have taken part in a failed Mongol invasion of Japan has been found off the Japanese coast

A $70-million haul of Ming Dynasty porcelain has been found in a 16th-century shipwreck off the Indonesian island of Java.

English Heritage said divers stole the torpedo tube hatch of the Holland 5, which sank six miles off Eastbourne in East Sussex in 1912.

A propaganda poster calling for Australians to avenge the sinking of Centaur

Shipwreck hunters sent down a remote controlled submarine to take the first ever footage of the wreck of an Australian hospital ship that was torpedoed off...

Commander, Submarine Forces Pacific Fleet Rear Adm. Douglas McAneny announced that a sunken vessel located in the Balabac Strait area of the Philippines is...

It seems that many more German submarines were sunk by Allied mines during World War than previously thought, the British newspaper The Independent writes...

The discovery of what is believed to be the wreck of a Soviet submarine , some 45 miles (70 kilometers) south of the Swedish island of Gotland and inside...

The Dutch Navy has discovered a German submarine which was lost along with its more than 40 crew members during the First World War

The Radford, at a length of 563 feet, will be the longest vessel ever reefed in the Atlantic, with the sinking to take place at the Del-Jersey-Land reef....

The wreck of a British cargo ship that sank while sailing in convoy with Matthew Flinders 200 years ago has been discovered off the Australian coast.

A World War II-era German submarine has rested for 60 years on the bottom of the Potomac River in southern Maryland gains protection

UNESCO has called for measures to preserve the HMS Victory, British man-of-war that sank in the English Channel in 1744, following its discovery by a...

Marco Islander Geoff Fahringer and his wife Cathie have been researchering a mystery ship thirty miles offshore from Marco Island Florida. Still nobody...

When a lion figurehead was found imbedded in the bottom sediment next to the sensational well-preserved 17th century wreck

If the names Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville sound familiar that's because they had a major find last year - the British Warship HMS Ontario. Now they've found...

Shipwreck hunters say they may already have found the World War II hospital ship the Centaur

A group of protesters has threatened legal action in a last ditch effort to stop the scuttling of former HMAS Adelaide due to happen next week.

Divers have found 30 bottles of champagne thought to pre-date the French Revolution on the Baltic seabed.

The vessel will be reefed at the Del-Jersey-Land Inshore Site (developed jointly by Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey), off the Delaware Coast...

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...

The sinking of the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes

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Five shipwrecks will be added to Wisconsin's Maritime Trails system of historic markers, highlighting each wreck. Already, there are 32 placed around the...

Canal boat remains in Oswego River

The wreckage of what is believed to be an original Erie Canal boat has been discovered in the Oswego River south of Fulton, New York.

The Quedagh Merchant was found a couple of years ago just off the coast of the Dominican Republic. It's only 70 feet from the shore of Catalina Island and...

An international team of marine archaeologists has recovered six iron cannon from a reef in shallow waters not far from the mouth of the Panama Canal.