In 2014, Jeff Goodreau of Rindge and Ryan King of Brentwood began a project with five others to search for the SS 'William H. Machen', a steamship which carried coal...

OceanGate, an ocean exploration company that has provided manned submersible services since 2009, has captured the first-ever detailed close-up sonar images of the Andrea Doria shipwreck. Using its manned submersible,...

NOAA has located the underwater wreck of the passenger steamer City of Chester, which sank in 1888 in a collision with the steamer Oceanic in dense fog near where the...

The Finnish dive team Badewanne has helped to complete the documentary Fluit, about the 17th-century Dutch fluyt shipwreck, The Swan, which they discovered at a depth of 85m (279ft) in...

In October, a scientific team from the Balearic Institute of Maritime Archaeology Studies found a Roman cargo ship with jugs containing olive oil and perfectly preserved garum sauce, an ancient...

An underwater research and exploration vessel has played a key role in locating a major US aircraft carrier lost during World War Two. The R/V Petrel, owned and operated by...

Some 290 shipwrecks lie in the Belgian part of the North Sea alone, with probably more than 1,000 in the entire North Sea, many of them silent witnesses to the...

Using a robot and multibeam sonar, underwater archaeologists have discovered three previously unknown Roman shipwrecks off the Tunisian coast. The researchers hail from Algeria, Croatia, Egypt, France, Italy, Morocco, Spain...

The haunting presence of shipwrecks such as the John Mahn in the North Sea offers glimpses into our history. These maritime time capsules, while fostering vibrant ecosystems, raise concerns about...

Jan Majcher holds a Master’s in Oceanography from the University of Gdansk, Poland, and a PhD in Environmental Science from Ulster University, Ireland. His academic research focused on submerged man-made...