14+ hour, 13+ min 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…...

1+ week, 9+ hour 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…...

2+ week, 16+ hour 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…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (358+ words) Thousands of barrels have been sitting deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean for decades, hidden from the world above. Scientists have now returned to this remote site with new technology to uncover what has been happening on the seafloor. Scientists have…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (818+ words) After a fierce blizzard tore through the ice, missing cargo from a remote Antarctic station reappeared in a place that made recovery far more complicated. From the air, they looked like seven tiny ants on a torn sheet of white…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (307+ words) A robot descended 2,500 meters into darkness and touched a shipwreck no human had seen for five centuries....