A WWII wreck loaded with munitions still rests under the Channel, decades after a salvage blast that rattled towns and reshaped the seabed. The remains of the SS Kielce have lain silent on the floor of the English Channel since a 1946 collision sank...

Divers recovered hundreds of gold coins from an English wreck; newly uncovered London legal records finally reveal the ship’s name, cargo and doomed voyage. Thirty years after a glint of gold first caught a diver’s eye on the sands of Devon’s...

Divers still risk everything to explore the 70‑year‑old Andrea Doria wreck, salvaging artifacts the ocean hasn’t claimed. More than seven decades after the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria slipped beneath the Atlantic, a new wave of divers is racing...

Divers locate HMS Tiger wreck off Isle of Wight, ending 118‑year hunt and sparking debate over stronger protection for military shipwrecks. A team of divers and maritime historians from ProjectXplore announced the identification of HMS Tiger, a 400‑ton...

find revives its lost voyage, sparking fresh historical intrigue. A team of divers and historians has finally located the wreck of the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Tiger, which sank during a night‑time training exercise in 1908. The vessel, which broke...

Investigators are unravelling the mystery behind a massive Northern European shipwreck where the crew vanished, leaving their belongings and rats behind. Construction workers in Tallinn, Estonia, were clearing ground for a new office development on...

Divers probing a supposed shipwreck under Lake Ontario uncovered an unexpected, mysterious object that defies typical wreck expectations. A team of Canadian divers probing Lake Ontario for a 1917 shipwreck instead encountered a two‑masted schooner that...

war grave 800 ft down, retrieving Stalin’s long‑lost wartime cargo. On September 16, 1981, a gold bar was lifted from the wreck of HMS Edinburgh, a British cruiser that had rested on its side in the Barents Sea for nearly four decades. The ship lay...

Archaeologists have discovered a unique medieval shipwreck containing rare artifacts like combs, rosary beads, and a brick hearth, unlike any seen before. Maritime archaeologists working near Copenhagen have uncovered the remnants of a massive medieval...

of the planet’s most remote environments. For decades, scientists have returned to this site, searching for signs that the wreck might be releasing dangerous materials into the ocean. Now, the most detailed investigation yet reveals a paradox. The...

Archaeologists uncover a 16th‑century shipwreck 2,567 m beneath the Mediterranean, its cargo eerily preserved as if frozen in time. A French naval survey team has pinpointed a 16th‑century merchant vessel resting at roughly 2,567 metres below the...

First treasures from a $20 billion shipwreck emerge, sparking a global clash over gold, history and legal ownership. Three centuries after the San José vanished beneath the Caribbean, a Colombian-led team succeeded in raising its first tangible relics....

A lost Pan Am airliner resurfaced after 74 years, uncovering the wreck that inspired the safety feature still visible on every passenger today. A long‑lost Pan Am Clipper, the Endeavor, has been located on the Atlantic seafloor roughly 600 meters...

Wreck of Pan Am Flight 526A located 74 years after sinking off Puerto Rico, uncovering the disaster that transformed modern flight safety briefings. A decades‑old mystery beneath the Atlantic was finally solved when a joint effort by the Air/Sea...

meters in length, 9 meters in width, and 4 meters in height, was sealed under the city since the 1360s. Excavations of the wreck of the Lootsi cog. Image credit: Estonian Maritime Museum The Lootsi cog, as it has come to be known, is one of the largest...

New footage from the Titanic wreckage reveals scattered personal belongings, yet the mysterious absence of human remains raises haunting questions. More than 1,500 people perished when the RMS Titanic descended into the depths of the North Atlantic on...

Beneath the waves lies a largely unexplored archive of wartime debris, with estimates indicating roughly three million shipwrecks scattered across the globe. A fraction of these—about 15,000—originated from the First and Second World Wars, and many...

that had been destined for the United States as payment from the Soviet Union. The operation, which required locating the wreck far from Murmansk and conducting prolonged deep‑sea dives, stands as one of the most demanding salvage missions ever...

A 1994 expedition to a famous shipwreck revealed a haunting detail: an open doorway and a body on the lakebed, marking the tragic loss of 29 lives. The disappearance of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald remains one of the most haunting enigmas in maritime...

and analyze the data, which ultimately revealed the unmistakable profile of the biplane resting on the sandy bottom. The wreckage of the Fairey Swordfish discovered off the coast of Malta. Credit: Maltadives A Final Flight Cut Short The Fairey...