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huffingtonpost.com Archaeologists recovered the first anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship off the North Carolina coast Friday, a move that might change plans about how to save the rest of the almost 300-year-old artifacts from the...
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scotsman.com A DIVER exploring a sea wreck off the Scottish coast died after he descended beyond the depths for which he was qualified, an inquest heard. Father-of-four Neil Rodgers, 40, became separated from two other more experienced divers when he got into...
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independent.co.uk Champagne experts have discovered what are believed to be the oldest existing bottles of Heidsieck champagne, salvaged from a shipwreck near the Finnish province of Aaland, local authorities said Monday. Divers stumbled across a cargo of around 150...
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bbc.co.uk Two shipwrecked barges involved in a river disaster in Gloucestershire 50 years ago have been refused protection by English Heritage. Five crew members died when the two vessels struck the Severn Rail Bridge, near Sharpness, in dense fog in 1960. A...
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usatoday.com "Great Lakes explorer Frederick Shannon retired from diving about five years ago because of declining health. The 64-year-old former police officer, who lives near Flint, Mich., is best known for his explorations of the wreckage of the sunken freighter...
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arevpam.org Underwater archeology and maritime history in Med. Our team of archeologist and commercial divers are doing shipwreck research, communication, presentation.
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cnn.com The hull of a ship likely made in the 1700s was discovered at the World Trade Center site Tuesday. Archaeologists say that it probably was sunk there in the effort to add land to Manhattan in the early 19th century. Molly McDonald, an archaeologist with...
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kmtr.com The ship "Helen E” has made a brief appearance on the southern Oregon coast. Locals may remember the World War II U.S. Navy submarine Chaser. It was grounded on the beach in 1951, but low tides and recent storms off the North Spit in Coos Bay pulled...
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abc.net.au The crew on board Seahorse Spirit found the Centaur 30 nautical miles off the southern tip of Moreton Island in south-east Queensland at the weekend. The Centaur was sunk by the Japanese in 1943, killing 268 people. The search ship arrived back in...
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news.bbc.co.uk Sailors often whisper of monster waves when ships sink mysteriously but, until now, no one quite believed them. As part of a project called MaxWave - which was set up to test the rumours - two Esa satellites surveyed the oceans. During a three week period...
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cnn.com On Wednesday a long-awaited report on the sinking of the Sydney II ended the mystery that began when it met its fate, November 19, 1941. Made to look like a cargo ship, the German vessel was in fact a military raider that fired on the Australians when...
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news.bbc.co.uk Underwater archaeologists in Italy have discovered the wrecks of five ancient Roman ships in the Mediterranean, with their cargo still largely intact.
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buffalonews.com For as long as 175 years, a shipwrecked schooner that had once sailed the Great Lakes, bringing grain and other goods to and from a just-burgeoning Buffalo, has laid virtually unscathed at the bottom of Lake Erie just west of Dunkirk. A group of shipwreck...
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uboataces.com this is a really good backround site for u-bats especialy there section for the emblems of the entire fleets u-boats.from u-2 to u-4711.
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in.news.yahoo.com Marine archaeologists in Sweden have discovered what they believe to be the wreck of a Viking ship at the bottom the country's largest lake. According to a report in The Local: Sweden's news in English, a team of 50 divers from the Swedish coastguard...
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lecimetieredusaint-laurent.com This website is dedicated to the wrecks between Bic and Sandy Bay in Québec.
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palltimes.com "On Saturday, Shipwreck discoverer Jim Kennard told the standing-room-only crowd at the 2009 Great Lakes Underwater Conference of his most recent and extremely rare find of a dagger board schooner at the bottom of Lake Ontario."
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numismaster.com "HMS Victory sank in the English Channel on Oct. 4, 1744, taking 1,150 sailors and four tons of Portuguese gold to the bottom of Davy Jones' locker. About 200,000 gold coins are believed to be part of the treasure, whose sinking caused a major...
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edition.cnn.com Deep-sea explorers say they have solved "one of the greatest mysteries in naval history" with the discovery of what was "the world's mightiest and most technically advanced warship" when it sank in 1744.The HMS Victory -- the predecessor to a historic...
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frassinetti.biz Information on Lighthouses and Shipwrecks in the south South Atlantic and of South Amercia,........... Selling and Exporting Art and Antiques from Argentina, Chile or Uruguay, nothing is too small or BIG. Also all kind of Travel Information for Argentina...
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shipwrecksofegypt.com A work-in-progress database for shipwrecks located along the coasts of Egypt....not just about the Red Sea! Plenty of ship histories here, as well as technical data, locations, and depths.
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msnbc.msn.com Lt. Cmdr. Jim Abele commanded the USS Grunion, a submarine sunk during World War II that was finally found by his sons on the slope of an underwater volcano near Kiska, at the western tip of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.
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telegraph.co.uk "Two Second World War tanks, a lost part of the D-Day landing fleet, have been found on the bottom of the English Channel."
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oceantreasures.org Sunken treasures, the underwater lost treasures website dedicated to all travellers, adventurers and genuine treasure lovers. Underwater archaeology, shipwrecks, scuba diving and maritime history re-discovered.
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democratandchronicle.com On Halloween night in 1780 — during the heart of the American Revolution — a 22-gun British warship sailing across Lake Ontario hit a sudden and violent gale. The storm swallowed the ship, along with more than 120 people on board. For the last 228 years,...
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