It’s probably the most famous shipwreck of all time: the RMS Titanic sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people. The wreckage of the ship was only found in 1985, when ...

The 1985 discovery of the RMS Titanic changed the field of maritime archaeology forever, proving that even deeply sunken ships could be found with the help of advanced technology in the form of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our oceans and seas have claimed countless vessels since the earliest days of seafaring. Most shipwrecks have been long-forgotten, ...

The misfortune of the British naval ship HMS Endurance resulted in one of the most famous survival stories of all time. Now, the history of the disaster is being rewritten. Irish polar explorer Sir ...

At the beginning of 2024, state archaeologists in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany, had an ambitious idea: to record and document all of the sunken wrecks in Lake Constance. The alpine lake once ...

Grab your smartphone and head to Greece's Shipwreck Beach to take a pic of one of the world's most stunning and photographed ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.

A cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup were among the first objects Colombian scientists recovered from the depths of the Caribbean Sea where the mythical Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 ...

Fifty years ago this month, the gales of November swallowed the SS Edmund Fitzgerald along with her crew of 29 men, one of the largest ships to go down on Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. Remembered ...

Our oceans and seas have claimed countless vessels since the earliest days of seafaring. Most shipwrecks have been long-forgotten, perhaps never having received much notice to begin with, but other ...