It is estimated that there are 3,800 shipwrecks scattered across the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Most date from the Second World War. However, shipwrecks are not an issue consigned to the past. In the ...

A cyclone revealed the remains of a wooden shipwreck — believed to date to the 19th century — on the coast of Australia. Photo from Kathleen Banks A storm has dredged up the past in Australia ...

From shipwrecks to collisions, fires, and explosions, these tragedies can have far-reaching effects on society, including leading to improved maritime safety regulations and procedures.

Wreck 5 is one of five shipwrecks discovered in Landfjärden, an area south of Stockholm. This location has interested researchers since the 1800s. Initially, the wrecks were believed to be Viking ...

Changsha ewers artifacts trapped in a coral concretion on the top of the wreck mound. Items from the Belitung shipwreck can be seen at Asia Society Museum's 'Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and ...

“Think about the Clotilda shipwreck… that’s a story that no one would know if the Clotilda descendants hadn’t been like ‘oh, we have saved artifacts and the stories of our ...

Last year, a Greek court threw out charges against nine Egyptian men who were accused of causing the shipwreck. The judges in the southern port city of Kalamata ruled they did not have ...

It's hard to believe how many of these huge ships over the years have sunk in the Great Lakes. Most of the shipwrecks happened in the late 19th and early 20th. Technology and safety standards have led ...

A group of divers have found a shipwreck with a cargo of 1840s Glasgow pottery off the west coast of Scotland. A conference is to tell story of the SS James Egan Layne which sank in Whitsand Bay ...

Although the Ironton's seven-man crew were able to get to the lifeboat, it was never untied from the ship and only two people survived the disaster along "Shipwreck Alley" Maria Pasquini is the ...