Researchers have found a 2,400-year-old Greek ship at the bottom of the Black Sea. They found the ship about 80 kilometers northeast of Burgas, a large city on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast.
The Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck discovery known to archeologists. The wreck has been dated to the second Proto-Helladic period, 2700–2200 BC.
The 75-foot-long, almost completely preserved shipwreck was discovered 1.2 miles below the surface of the Black Sea. Researchers posit that it has laid there untouched for over 2,400 years.
Explorers have found the deepest shipwreck ever identified, a US navy destroyer escort sunk during WWII. The USS Samuel B Roberts went down during the Battle Off Samar in the Philippine Sea in October 1944. It lies in 6,895m (22,621ft) of water.
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The oldest shipwreck to be found in deep water was discovered in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel, marine archaeologists announced this week. The 3,300-year-old shipwreck contained hundreds of well-preserved jugs that transported wine, food oils, fruit and other products across the Mediterranean.
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The 3,300-year-old cargo vessel was found during a routine survey conducted by Energean E&P, a natural gas company that operates several offshore drilling fields, the Israel Antiquities Authority said today. The shipwreck, which is about 42 feet long, contained hundreds of intact clay storage jars known as amphorae.
The wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine, with an estimated loss of about 9,400 people, remains the deadliest isolated maritime disaster ever, excluding such events as the destruction of entire fleets like the 1274 and 1281 storms that are said to ...
The story of how Harrison Okene became the lone survivor of the overturned Jascon-4 tugboat in May 2013 was widely reported around the world. Working as a ship's cook off the coast of Nigeria at the age of 29, Okene was in the bathroom when a wave hit his boat, overturning it and sending it 100 feet below the surface.
A British-built steamship that disappeared more than 120 years ago with 32 passengers on board has been discovered off the coast of Australia. The SS Nemesis was transporting coal to Melbourne, Australia, in 1904 when it sailed into a storm and was never seen again.
Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, HMS Endurance, was located by a team of scientists, historians and filmmakers more than a century after it sunk off the coast of Antarctica.
Built in Boston and launched in 1797, USS CONSTITUTION is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world today. During the War of 1812 the ship gained fame and its name “Old Ironsides.” CONSTITUTION remains both a training and ceremonial ship for the Navy, as well as an educational experience for visitors.
The SS Arlington was a World War II steamship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940. It was found in February of 2024, 35 miles north of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula and 650 feet deep. The ship was found in collaboration between Dan Fountain and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS).
His research has pinpointed 15,000 shipwrecks across the globe in a map accounting for the more than 550,000 servicemen killed and 43 million tons of iron sunk during WWII. But 4,500 sunken ships remain unaccounted for because records on them are limited, Heersink says.
The Wilhelm Gustloff (1945): The deadliest shipwreck in history. On January 30, 1945, some 9,000 people perished aboard this German ocean liner after it was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine and sank in the frigid waters of the Baltic Sea.
It is estimated that there are over three million shipwrecks worldwide! Less than 1% of these wrecks have actually been explored. Some wrecks are actively being looked for, including the Bonhomme Richard, but many are found by accident. The Dokos shipwreck is the oldest known wreck, dated to 2700-2200 BC.
It was a battleship which was in commission for less than a year, but each day it existed it was a terror of the sea for the Allies. The Bismarck was the most feared battleship in the German Kriegsmarine (War Navy) and, at over 250 metres in length, the biggest.
Mary Celeste, American brigantine that was found abandoned on December 5, 1872, some 400 nautical miles (740 km) from the Azores, Portugal. The fate of the 10 people aboard remains a mystery.
After more than 100 years hidden in the icy waters of Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has been revealed in extraordinary 3D detail. For the first time we can see the vessel, which sank in 1915 and lies 3,000m down at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, as if the murky water has been drained away.
The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing Shackleton and his men to make an astonishing escape on foot and in small boats.
