... Namibia's diamond company, Namdeb, said Wednesday it had discovered a 500-year-old shipwreck containing a treasure of coins, ivory, copper and weapons during mining operations at sea.
A 500-year-old shipwreck has been found off the coast of Namibia laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins, and cannons to fend off pirates.
... the Vasa high sulfur concentrations are found only in the surface layers of the timbers, while for other shipwrecks such as the Mary Rose in Portsmouth, England, sulfur has penetrated throughout the ...
... , Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. treasure hunting company Odyssey Marine Exploration said on Thursday it had found two shipwreck sites near the English Channel with artifacts from the colonial period.
... since WWII. In 1991, a 100-foot vessel shipwrecked on the atoll. Scientists first surveyed the area in ... prevented by removing man-made debris such as shipwrecks from coral reefs before organisms like ...
Boxed penguins, blazes in L.A., a ball of "lightning," and a big shipwreck are captured in some of the week's best news photos.
English outcast pirate Captain Kidd's shipwreck discovered near Catalina Island. Show premieres Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 9PM ET/PT
Nearly 3,700 World War II shipwrecks lie submerged in the Pacific Ocean, some containing noxious cargo including oil, diesel, gasoline, chemicals, and even unexploded ordnance.
New research on excavated shipwrecks indicates that a transition to sophisticated frame-based hull construction occurred 500 years earlier than scientists thought
Experts know of about a dozen Civil War-era shipwrecks off the Texas coast. They might have just identified another.
NAPLES, Italy, July 24 (UPI) -- Five well-preserved ancient shipwrecks have been discovered off the island of Ventotene, Italy, a U.S. trust representing maritime researchers said.
... numbers of an invasive species related to anemones and corals, Rhodactis howesii, on and around the shipwreck site. The density of this species progressively decreased with distance from the ship, and ...
For the first time, researchers have definitively shown that shipwrecks and other man-made structures increase the potential for large invasions of unwanted species into coral reefs, even ...
Expedition to study World War II shipwrecks sunk in 1942 in what's called the "Graveyard of the Atlantic."
... blowing up at least two other
ships on behalf of the Calabrian Mafia, and also said that this
particular shipwreck may hold radioactive material.
Italy's robotic camera first returned images of yellow ...
