• Wreck near planned wind farm site may be WW1 ship

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:44
    From BBC   A wreck discovered near the site of a planned floating offshore windfarm off the Aberdeenshire coast may be a ship sunk during World War One. Russian merchant vessel Tobol - originally SS Cheltenham - was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1917. ScottishPower and Shell are behind the proposed MarramWind offshore windfarm about 75km (46 miles) off the north east coast of Scotland. Scans during survey work discovered what ...

  • Southeast Asia's shipwreck diving spots

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:44
    From Yahoo Life   Shopping in Singapore, looking down from the Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, taking in the massive ancient temples in Cambodia’ Angkor Wat and Borobudur on Java: Tropical Southeast Asia is hardly short of things to do for tourists or places to go. Some of the region's best attractions are not on land or even above the sea-level, however. Diving is another reason Southeast Asia is popular with tourists, and ...

  • Discovering Ireland's hidden shipwrecks

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:44
    By Neil Michael - Irish Examiner   When you see them for the first time, you literally stop in your tracks. And your reaction is just to go ‘ow’ It’ like seeing something completely out of place. It’ like as if you looked out your window in the morning and saw aliens standing in your driveway. This is how Stewart Andrews felt the first time he saw Sherman tanks on the ocean floor, off the Donegal c ...

  • Wreck of WWII 'Hit 'Em Harder' submarine

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:44
    By Tom Metcalfe - Livescience.com Shipwreck hunters have discovered the remains of a famous American submarine that sank with 79 crew on board while fighting a Japanese warship near the Philippines in 1944. According to the New York-based Lost 52 Project, which made the discovery, the wreck of USS Harder now lies on its keel on the bottom of the South hina ea near the northern Philippine island of Luzon at a depth of around ...

  • Cargo from 'most ancient' shipwreck found off Israel

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:44
    By Rob Corp - BBC     Cargo from the remains of the oldest shipwreck to be found in the deep sea has been discovered in the eastern Mediterranean, Israeli archaeologists have said. Hundreds of intact amphorae - ancient storage jars - believed to be 3,300 years old, were discovered 90km (56 miles) off the northern coast of Israel at a depth of 1,800m (5,905ft) on the sea bed. Experts at the Israel Antiquities Authority ...

  • U.S. Ship that sank in 1856 with 132 onboard discovered

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:44
    By Kerry Breen - CBS News The wreck of a passenger steamship that sank in 1856 in the Atlantic Ocean has been discovered about 200 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, a New Jersey-based salvage group said. Le Lyonnais was a trans-Atlantic steamship, built in England for a French company. The ship was meant to carry passengers and mail between England and America, and had both sails and a steam engine, according to Atlantic Wreck Salvage, ...

  • Mystery of 400-year-old ship with £4,000,000,000 of gold

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:44
    By Jen Mills - Metro.co.uk The ‘l Dorado of the Seas’has been missing for 400 years and may finally reveal its secrets. The mysterious Merchant Royal’ shipwreck is somewhere off the coast of Cornwall, but has left people baffled because to this day it has still never been found. This is despite it carrying up to £4 billion of gold and other precious metals. So whoever finds it could get their hands on more ...

  • The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:44
    By Natasha Geiling, updated by Meilan Solly - Smithsonianmag.com The USS Indianapolis had delivered the crucial components of the first operational atomic bomb to a naval base in the Pacific, racing from San Francisco to Tinian, one of the Northern Mariana Islands, in a record-breaking ten days. In just under two weeks, the bomb would level the Japanese city of Hiroshima. But for now, on July 28, 1945, the Indianapolis was sailing ...

  • Troubled Waters...

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:44
    By Samantha Libreri - RTE News It has been the talk of the town all week. Reports by RTÉ News on Monday that three new shipwrecks have been discovered on Portmarnock Strand prompted locals to comb the north Dublin beach, to see with their own eyes the pieces of the past that have up to now been hidden by the sands. This stretch of the capitals coastline has quite the history of ships running ashore. Some 50 wrecks are recorded ...

  • Historic Ocean Liner SS United States in Deal to be Sunk as Artificial Reef

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:42
    After decades of working to save the historic ocean liner SS United States, the SS United States Conservancy has made the difficult choice to sell the old liner to be sunk to create the world’s largest artificial reef, off the … Continue reading → The post Historic Ocean Liner SS United States in Deal to be Sunk as Artificial Reef appeared first on Old Salt Blog.

  • Chemical Tanker Captain Imprisoned After New Orleans Oil Spill 

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:10
    NEW ORLEANS, LA (gCaptain) In a high-profile case involving environmental crimes at sea, two corporations—Privé Overseas Marine and Privé Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret—received their sentences last week in federal court in...

  • China Doubles Down on Arctic Container Shipping Dispatching Second Panamax

    Updated: 2024-09-30 21:33:10
    (gCaptain) – A week after a Panamax container ship became the first vessel of its size to successfully transit the Arctic, another Chinese shipping operator dispatched a second Panamax box carrier....

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