Wrecks & Archaeology

Political spin covered up that Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose was really sunk by a French cannonball, and not capsized by wind and an incompentent crew

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett recently announced $440,000 in funding from the Australian Government's Historic Shipwrecks Program to protect the nation's underwater cultural heritage.

A British marine historian who bought the wreck from the British government in 1996, plans to give submarine tours of the well-preserved Olympic-class ocean liner.

Research divers have located the wreck of WW2 US Submarine S-21 (SS-126) off the coast of Maine

Convention on the protection of the underwater cultural heritage will enter into force in January 2009

Twenty States have now ratified the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, which therefore will enter into force on 2 January 2009, three months after the deposit of the 20th instrument of acceptance.

The Grunion was last heard from July 30, 1942. The submarine reported heavy anti-submarine activity at the entrance to Kiska, and that it had 10 torpedoes remaining forward. On the same day, the Grunion was directed to return to Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base.

NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, in collaboration with the National Park Service, Minerals Management Service, East Carolina University, the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute, and the State of North Carolina, will be conducting an archaeological expedition to survey ships sunk off the coast of North Carolina during the WWII.