Exactly 360 years to the day since the Dutch merchant ship Melckmeyt (Milkmaid) was wrecked off a remote Icelandic island, experts have harnessed virtual reality to create a virtual dive...

In order to guarantee nautical depths, the Rijkswaterstaat survey department runs an annual seabed monitoring programme. In July 2019, research vessel MS Arca left its homeport of Scheveningen, the Netherlands, to conduct a shipwreck survey that included a World War One submarine. In order to guarantee nautical depths, the Rijkswaterstaat survey department runs an annual seabed monitoring programme. In July 2019, research vessel MS Arca left its home port of Scheveningen, the...

Janneke Bos, BSc, is Rijkswaterstaat’s asset manager of the North Sea. She worked at the Netherlands Hydrographic Office for seven years before she joining Rijkswaterstaat 11 years ago. She is...

US-based Blue Robotics is launching the Ping360 Scanning Sonar, which offers small ROVs the ability to navigate in low visibility water conditions. The Ping360 is a mechanical scanning sonar –...

The Canadian government has released images and video footage of the shipwreck of HMS Terror, the Royal Navy warship that was part of an 1845 Arctic mission to locate the Northwest...

An 8,000-year-old wooden platform has been discovered off the Isle of Wight coast near Yarmouth in the UK,  BBC News reports. The seabed where the structure was found—at a depth...

Metal pirates aren’t looking for treasure, but they are interested in the metal in ships, such as bronze propellers and casings on electrical equipment found in historic shipwrecks. The final resting places...

UNH's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping has developed an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) that can explore the seafloor in waters that may be too deep for divers. Researchers from the...

A team of scientists has revealed the remains of an intact and astonishingly preserved 500-year-old shipwreck in the Baltic, using state-of-the-art underwater robots. But the ship’s identity remains a mystery....

The wreck of an Australian ship sunk by a Japanese submarine in World War II has been found after 77 years. The SS Iron Crown, a naval freight ship, was...