In two previous installments we got all the preliminary work done to get the wheels turning on a bareboat sailing vacation. Now it’s time to flesh out your trip. A sailing vacation takes some additional research and planning than a land based vacation. As soon as you can, you want to order whatever “pilot” or [...]
Sailboat owners have to be prepared for unexpected costs. They always crop up. The larger the boat the more complicated the systems and parts seem to cost incrementally more with every foot of boat length. For decades this basically put a giant neon flashing impediment across the entry of the sport. Today, those days are [...]
By Jeff Hampton - The Virginian-Pilot
Remains of a ship nearly 400 years old salvaged from the surf early this month will be moved from Corolla, N.C., to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras. The wreck now sits exposed to the elements under an oak tree near the Currituck Beach Lighthouse. State and local officials agreed it would be better off out of the weather. Typically, sand and salt water protect old wrecks but once up on land and dried, they tend to deteriorate. Plans...
By Alex Wilson - VCR Reporter Online
A dedicated group of volunteer scuba divers employ their expertise surveying underwater archeology in the Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary.Coastal Maritime Archeology Resources members spend about a week living aboard research vessels twice a year, to measure and map shipwrecks, sunken airplanes and archeological sites scattered on the ocean floor.CMAR Director of Operations Patrick Smith says there’ nothing quite like seeing a shipwreck for...
By Joe Kovacs - WorldNetDaily
Has the real Noah's Ark spoken of in the Bible truly been found ? t least two seasoned archaeologists who have made numerous expeditions to Mount Ararat in search of Noah's Ark are throwing cold water on this week's claim the Old Testament vessel has finally been discovered, saying it's a hoax involving wood hauled in from the Black Sea region."To make a long story short: this is all reported to be a fake," said Randall Price, director of Judaic Studies...
From STV
The passenger ship City of Adelaide, which travelled between Australia and Britain, is lying in Irvine.A firm has been appointed to review options for the future of the 145-year-old City of Adelaide, currently resting on a slipway in North Ayrshire. The Sunderland-built ship, which predates the Cutty Sark, took people and wool between Australia and Britain on 28 round trips.Later known as the Carrick, it has been left to the elements at Irvine and could still face deconstruction...
By Markus Junianto Sihaloho - Jakarta Post
The government said on Wednesday that it had launched an investigation into the activities of alleged treasure hunter Michael Hatcher, who has a lengthy history with Indonesia and is believed to again be operating on a new discovery.Aji Sularso, an official with the National Committee for Salvage and Utilization of Valuable Objects from Sunken Ships (Pannas BMKT), said it had established a joint investigation team comprising related government...
By Sandy Semans - Sentinel
While State archaeologists try to determine the logistics needed to move the remains of a shipwreck from Corolla to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras, the identity of the colonial-period vessel seems more uncertain.Initially, it was thought that the pegged hull could be what is left of the HMS Swift, which went aground off of Virginia in 1698 and later ended up coming ashore in Currituck, where it was scavenged by locals. If that was found to...
From Wicked Local Cape Cod
Back in 1746, the famous HMS Somerset was built in England to be a British Man of War ship. It wrecked off the cost of Truro Nov. 2, 1778. Back in 1775, ‘rsquo;hardly a man is now alive that still remembers’rsquo; the British warship floating off of the Charlestown shore. But on April 20, 2010, the Truro Central School 5th grade class went to Race Point Beach in Provincetown and hiked about two miles into Truro to see the remnants of the wreck...
A giant cage has been erected around an ancient Greek shipwreck in Croatia, effectively creating an underwater safe.
Little remains of the wooden ship but its cargo of earthenware amphora – ceramic vases – still remain stacked row upon row.
The vases, which originally contained olive oil and wine, are still tightly packed into the cargo hold as they [...]
From Telegraph.co.uk
A shipwreck containing £5 million worth of ancient treasures is being protected by a cage, creating a giant underwater safe, in Croatia.
The second century Greek trading vessel lies on the sea bed off the coast of Cavtat. Little remains of the wooden ship but its cargo of earthenware amphora - ceramic vases - still remain stacked row upon row.The vases, which originally contained olive oil and wine, are still tightly packed into the cargo hold as they were...
By Matt Deans - The Coffs Coast Advocate
An expedition to uncover lost war relics beneath the waves at Gallipoli will set off for Turkey next month after being saved by a grant from the State Government.The archaeological survey, known as ‘’will map the forgotten underwater battlefields of Anzac Cove, North Beach and Suvla Bay.Coffs Harbour diver and photographer Mark Spencer is set to rejoin the team that in 1998 surveyed the famous World War I wreck of the Australian submarine...
A team of archaeologists are heading to Turkey to carry out the first large-scale mapping of the Gallipoli’s underwater terrain.
he team is also hoping to find military relics like the remains of small boats, ammunition and what is left of battlefield jetties.
NSW state maritime archaeologist and team leader Tim Smith says it is important the [...]
Dari RRI
Cirebon, Setelah penemuan Harta Karun Dinasti Ming di Perairan Cirebon yang disita dari kegiatan pencarian ilegal di perairan Blanakan, Kabupaten Subang beberapa waktu lalu, Tim penanganan indikasi Ilegal Barang Barharga Muatan Kapal Tenggelam BMKT dari Kementrian Budaya dan Pariwisata, ke Cirebon untuk melakukan penelitian dan investigasi terhadap penemuan ribuan keramik Cina tersebut. Kepada RRI Ketua tim penanganan, Rini Supriyatun yang juga arkeolog dari Dirjen Sejarah dan...
By Kim Tae-gyu - Korea Times
Korea is striving to develop versatile aquatic robots, which can swim as well as crawl on the seabed at a depth of 6 kilometers by 2016. The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs said Monday that the Seoul administration will channel 20 billion won over the next five years to create the underwater vehicles. It must be able to swim at a speed of 18 meters per minute and walk 30 meters per minute to explore the seabed to search for organisms...
From Sussex Countian.com
The Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck and HMB DeBraak, two of the more than 200 shipwrecks that have littered the floors of the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay off Lewes, will be explored in the program “Zwaanendael Shipwreck Archaeology” which will take place on Saturday, May 29, between 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., at the Zwaanendael Museum, 102 Kings Hwy., Lewes.In addition to historical information and a display of artifacts recovered from the two shipwrecks,...
By Randy Boswell - Canwest
As the federal government prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the Canadian navy next month, the ship seen as the birthplace of the country's maritime fighting force is edging closer to formal recognition and protection as a national historic site - in the United States.The CGS Canada, the armed vessel on which the nation's first naval recruits trained ahead of the official creation of Canada's navy in 1910, was later sold and renamed the Queen of Nassau...
By Daniel Frank Sedwick - Coin Link
“Our latest auction proves that world coins and treasure items are still strong,” said Daniel Sedwick, company principal and founder, “and that we achieve consistent results. This is our second auction in a row that reached over $1 million with a 94% sell-through rate, which is remarkable and a testament to the hard work we put in, both to get great consignments and to do what it takes to sell them all.”Sedwick also pointed out...
By Scott Harper - The Virginian-Pilot
They found a wheelchair, three bikes, a baby stroller, a bag of laundry, a mop, tires, a garden cart, a sledge hammer, city of Norfolk banners, chairs, tables, a Ford hubcap, a ladder covered with oysters, hoses, cables, chains and a traffic cone – all covered with black mud and years of foul rot.Commercial divers hauled up all this junk Saturday and loads more from the bottom of the Elizabeth River, in a small cove near Town Point Park and...
By Nicola Nosengo - Nature News
Around four tonnes of ancient Roman lead was yesterday transferred from a museum on the Italian island of Sardinia to the country's national particle physics laboratory at Gran Sasso on the mainland. Once destined to become water pipes, coins or ammunition for Roman soldiers' slingshots, the metal will instead form part of a cutting-edge experiment to nail down the mass of neutrinos.The 120 lead ingots, each weighing about 33 kilograms, come from a larger...