1+ week, 4+ day ago   (636+ words) Its crew survived in 1943, but their aircraft vanished beneath the sea. An underwater robot searching the seabed off Malta found the remains of a Second World War aircraft about 70 meters (230 feet) beneath the surface. The wreck was a Fairey Swordfish,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (479+ words) Explorers found coats, boots and personal belongings around Titanic. What they didn’t find is far more unsettling. They have never found or documented any human remains. The fact that no human remains were found are due to the physical laws…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (411+ words) Nineteen cannons, four anchors, one 200-meter trail on the seafloor. Archaeologists just traced the exact moment a doomed ship gave up its fight to survive. The wreck, known as Ánimas de la Victoria, sits inside Espíritu Santo Bay, within the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (928+ words) Nothing preserves a Roman emperor’s ships like 2,000 years underwater. Nothing destroys them faster than war. Two massive Roman ships, believed to belong to Emperor Caligula, lay submerged in Lake Nemi (a volcanic crater lake) approximately 30 kilometers south of Rome, for…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (514+ words) A 16th-century wreck found 2,567 metres below the Mediterranean stunned archaeologists with cargo that appears almost frozen in time. In southern France, off the coast of Ramatuelle in eastern France, French authorities have confirmed that they’ve located a 16th-century merchant ship…...