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Byline: Michael E. Ruane On March 1, 1942, three months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the aged American destroyer USS Edsall was steaming alone in the Indian Ocean south [...]

Byline: Michael E. Ruane On March 1, 1942, three months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the aged American destroyer USS Edsall was steaming alone in the Indian Ocean south [...]

Byline: Caitlin Looby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK On the morning of Sept. 13, Brendon Baillod and Bob Jaeck set out on a three-day mission to find the John [...]

Byline: Donna Ferguson Treasure and shipwrecks go hand in hand -- but what are the most magnificent and historically significant items ever salvaged and what do they tell us about [...]

Byline: Dan Radel, Asbury Park Press, USA TODAY NETWORK A long-lost transatlantic passenger steamship that sank off the East Coast more than 165 years ago with 132 passengers on board [...]

Byline: Praveena Somasundaram There was just one photo taken of her in her final resting place. In 1986, an explorer captured an image of 'Diana of Versailles,' a 2-foot-tall bronze [...]

The Margaret A. Muir schooner sank during a storm in 1893. Shipwreck hunters found it near the mouth of a popular Wisconsin harbor. Early on Sept. 30, 1893, the Margaret [...]

Byline: Jiselle Lee Mike Penninger thought his treasure-hunting days might be over. After 30 years of exploring wrecks off the Atlantic coast, surfacing with coins, rings and other artifacts, the [...]

About a mile beneath the sea, the ship suggests that trade in the eastern Mediterranean Sea traveled much farther from the safety of land. Remains of the oldest shipwreck ever [...]

Byline: MELANIE LIDMAN; ASSOCIATED PRESS TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- A company drilling for natural gas off the coast of northern Israel discovered a 3,300-year-old ship and its cargo, one of [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- When renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton hatched a plan to explore the Canadian Arctic in 1921, he turned to his friend Sir John [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- The Canadian-led team that found the wreck of renowned explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's last ship, Quest, launched an intricate detective operation to locate it, [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's last ship - on which the renowned polar explorer suddenly died during his final Antarctic voyage - has [...]

Byline: Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY The wreckage of a 244-foot merchant ship that sank in 1940 has been found in Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, along with [...]

Byline: Michael E. Ruane The big Japanese suicide plane had slipped unseen through the confusion of the battle and was headed straight for the American aircraft carrier USS Ommaney Bay. [...]

The last time Christine Dawood saw her husband, Shahzada, and their son, Suleman, they were specks on the North Atlantic, bobbing on a floating platform about 400 miles from land. [...]

Byline: Justin Vellucci Jun. 26Alex Waibel fiddled with his computer and a headset-mounted microphone that transcribed his every word. And he waited. And waited. Around 8 a.m. July 14, 2022, [...]

After his early astronaut dreams were cut short, Stockton Rush was determined to open up underwater exploration and saw his company as the ''SpaceX for the ocean.'' From the start, [...]

Byline: FRÉDÉRIK -XAVIER DUHAMEL, ALANNA SMITH The missing Titan submersible suffered a 'catastrophic implosion,' killing all five people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday, ending a complex [...]

Byline: Daniel Wu In 1941, the British T-class submarine Triumph played a risky game of hide and seek in a covert theater of World War II. The British Royal Navy [...]

The U.S.S. Mannert L. Abele was broken in half by two kamikaze attacks and sank in 4,500 feet of water, killing 84 sailors. A U.S. Navy destroyer sunk in 1945 [...]

Researchers hope new 3-D images will provide clues about what happened to the ocean liner when it sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. An ambitious digital imaging project has [...]

Byline: Adela Suliman More than a century after the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from England - a tragedy that continues to captivate scientists, Hollywood and the public - [...]

A lumber fleet left the docks of Baraga, Mich., in 1914, and was never seen again. A team of shipwreck hunters found two of its vessels more than 100 years [...]

ABOARD TAN SUO YI HAO, June 11, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Early on Sunday morning, China's scientific research ship Tan Suo Yi Hao (Discovery One), carrying the crewed submersible [...]

Byline: Kelly Kasulis Cho For years, researchers and explorers scoured the sea in search of the doomed RMS Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic in 1912. But only in [...]

Byline: BOB WEBER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Eleven metres below the surface of the Northwest Passage, deep within the wreck of one of Captain John Franklin's doomed ships, something caught the [...]

The pants and other artifacts auctioned were salvaged from the S.S. Central America, a ship that sank in 1857. A pair of work pants that sold for $114,000 at an [...]

Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. NATIONAL An article on Thursday about a lawsuit against the lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a central part in developing [...]

The 36-foot boat carried U.S. troops during the invasion of Sicily and the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific, officials said. How it ended up in Lake Shasta is a [...]

Byline: Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY A ship that tried to warn the Titanic of an iceberg on the night it sank has been discovered at the bottom of the Irish [...]