New sculptures added to Cancun's underwater museum
Updated: 2010-02-28 15:29:00
From news.com.au
The Cancun and Isla Mujeres Underwater Art Museum is a step closer to becoming the world's largest underwater museum by adding three new sculptures. he sculptures - Dream Collector, Man on Fire and The Gardener of Hope – were carefully submerged to a variety of different depths throughout the national park.Created by British/Guyanese artist Jason de Caires Taylor, the sculptures were placed near natural reefs and marine life in order to create an artificial...
From BBC
Many in the UK have never heard of SS Mendi, yet in South Africa's Easten Cape Province she is as famous as RMS Titanic.In February 1917, she was lost off the south coast of the Isle of Wight with, 600 troops on board. Sinking 9 miles (14.4 km) off St Catherine's point, it is a story that is still virtually unknown in the UK. iver Martin Woodward was the first person to find and identify the wreck of SS Mendi in 1974. It was not until later he discovered the tragic story...
Par Catherine Gouëset - L'Express.fr
Alors que la tension monte entre l'Argentine et la Grande-Bretagne après le lancement, par Londres, d'une campagne d'exploration pétrolière au large des Malouines, retour sur les grandes dates de l'archipel, situé à moins de 500 km de la côte argentine.
XVIème siècle : l'archipel des Malouines est signalé sur les cartes des explorateurs européens.1690 : des marins britanniques...
By Edward Colimore - Philly.com
During the Spanish-American War, Navy Commodore George Dewey stood on the bridge of the ship and uttered the words that became famous: "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley."The vessel's mighty guns fired the first shots of the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, announcing the United States as an international power.The USS Olympia was the Navy's state-of-the-art flagship, a source of pride for a country flexing its muscles.More than a century later,...
China and Kenya are planning to search for ancient Chinese ships which wrecked almost 600 years ago off the east coast of Africa.
The sunken ships are believed to have been part of a massive fleet led by Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He that reached Malindi in 1418. Kenyan lore has long told of shipwrecked Chinese [...]
By Daniel Frank Sedwick - CoinNews.net
Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC is working around the clock to present another big auction with over 2150 lots and a pre-auction estimate of over $1 million. Lots will be online around the first week of March and available for viewing in person at the Baltimore Coin Show March 3-7.Also lot viewing in person will be available by appointment at our private office in Winter Park, Florida, March 8-April 1 (weekdays only, 9 am to 5 pm).In great deference to...
By Lamaur Stancil - TCPalm
It’ taken almost four centuries for someone to find the shipwrecked remains of a Spanish treasure galleon, and it’ just east of Indian River County.Orlando-based treasure hunter Tom Gidus said he’ been examining the debris from the ship, which is more than 14 miles east of the barrier islands. Indialantic shipwreck historian Robert Marx said he reviewed pieces Gidus found and concluded they are from the ship known as the Espiritu Santo el...
By Jonathan Mattise - TCPalm
The Maritime & Boating Museum at Indian RiverSide Park is kicking off a word-of-mouth campaign aimed to triple membership in less than two months, all in hopes of eventually expanding its facilities at the park.Museum board members and volunteers are focusing on hitting 1,000 members by mid-April through several grassroots initiatives.The museum, currently with about 240 members, dropped its membership prices to $15 for a single person, $20 for a couple...
By Chuck Holton - CBN
The tiny island of Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea has a rich history as one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.It all started with a shipwreck, as told in the book of Acts, about 60 AD while the apostle Paul was enroute to Rome. Boarding an Alexandrian grain freighter on the isle of Crete, a fierce Nor'easter blew the ship off course. It looked like all was lost."On the fourteenth night, they were still being driven across the Adriatic...
From People's Daily Online
The National Museum of China, Peking University's School of Archaeology and Museology, as well as the Kenya National Museum jointly signed an agreement February 23, under which, Chinese and Kenyan experts will investigate and excavate underwater and onshore cultural relics in Kenya's Lamu Archipelago, in a bid to further solve relevant historical mysteries relating to China-Africa cultural and economic exchange in ancient times. In addition, some Chinese experts...
By Peter Collins - The Standard
It's sailed half-way around the world, survived a shipwreck 130 years ago and is valued at more than $4 million. Now the Loch Ard peacock has finally been included in Victoria's heritage register.The life-size Minton porcelain artwork statue, which is the centrepiece of Warrnambool's Flagstaff Hill maritime history display, is insured for $4 million and kept in a padded glass case with electronic security.Heritage Council of Victoria chairman Daryl Jackson...
By Eti Bonn-Muller - Archaeology
An unprecedented find off the coast of Crete.
Crete has seduced archaeologists for more than a century, luring them to its rocky shores with fantastic tales of legendary kings, cunning deities, and mythical creatures. The largest of the Greek islands, Crete was the land of the Minoans (3100-1050 B.C.), a Bronze Age civilization named after its first ruler, King Minos, the "master of the seas" who is said to have rid the waters of pirates.
According to...
From TVNZ
Police have found a shipwreck in Tonga after large numbers of people started turning up at dentists wanting to melt down gold items. The ship is a mystery but four men have been charged with removing items from a wreck and not reporting it. One of those four is navigator Tuakalau Loufau, who along with three others, has been charged with finding a shipwreck and taking items from it. The police were tipped off about the mystery shipwreck off the main island of Tongatapu, when...