Voyage Into the Deep: Part I - Shipwreck
Updated: 2011-11-08 11:52:53
By Oscar Valenzuela - awaii News Now
Polynesian seafarers were the first known navigators through the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, then ...-
By Oscar Valenzuela - awaii News Now
Polynesian seafarers were the first known navigators through the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, then ...
New Scuba Gear: Nautilus Lifeline GPS Radio Holster - $35.95
Updated: 2011-11-08 00:30:35Designed to keep your Nautilus Lifeline GPS in a secure and functional position on your gear Coil tether cable helps prevent loss by accidental dropping Always keep your GPS radio close to you Fits any BC or weight belt with standard 2 inch webbing FULL MANUFACTURERS WARRANTY16th century Spanish artifacts unearthed in Georgia, USA
Updated: 2011-11-08 00:21:32
16th-century glass beads and tools have been found under a former Native American village in Georgia. A continent and five centuries away, an excavation organized by Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum of Natural History found buried glass beads, iron tools, and brass and silver ornaments dating to the mid-1500s. The southern-Georgia location—where they’d been searching for a [...]Ocean Quest 3mm Premium Super-Stretch Titanium Diving Gloves. Review - $19.95 - Scuba Gear Customer Reviews
Updated: 2011-11-07 22:53:14Rating: diving glovesWas looking for a spare pair of gloves and these fit the bill. True to size and comfortable.40% of medieval graves were disturbed, and not by robbers
Updated: 2011-11-07 21:25:17
New research has revealed that as much as 40% of medieval graves in Europe have been disturbed, and not always by grave robbers. “I think the grave goods didn’t have only material value, I think they had a strong symbolic value that it was part of the identity of the people,” she said, speculating that when [...]Rain damages ancient pagodas in Myanmar
Updated: 2011-11-07 18:05:40
Heavy rain in Myanmar has damaged a number of ancient Buddhist pagodas. “We started renovation on the morning of October 21 when the rain slowed down. We will work on it as quickly as possible to restore the damage,” he said. “We were in the middle of planning a long-term project to renovate pagodas managed [...]Immigrant worker mass grave found in Philadelphia
Updated: 2011-11-07 14:25:13A mass grave containing the remains of Irish immigrants railroad workers has been found in Philadelphia. Nearly 180 years later, local researchers say they have a clearer picture of the men’s fate. But their massive effort to unearth, identify and properly re-inter the workers’ remains will not be realized; the grave is inaccessible, they say, [...]Antico’s bronzes on display in DC
Updated: 2011-11-06 06:00:07Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, through April 8, “is the first in the United States devoted to the Mantuan sculptor and goldsmith Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico (c. 1455–1528) for his expertise in classical antiquity.”Molokais World Class Hard Coral Reef Scuba Photo Contest Entry
Updated: 2011-11-04 23:18:18, Molokais World Class Hard Coral Reef taken by John Fernald 1 Votes Vote for this photo Camera : Liquid Image Lens 147 50 Film Speed : 363 Exposure Settings : f : 16 5 s : 10 1199 Location : Molokai , HI Barrier Reef Date Submitted : 11 3 2011 4:25:55 PM Share this page Return to scuba photo contest Underwater scuba diving photo contest sponsered by scuba.comHenderson H2 Hyperstretch Titanium Diving Hood Review - $67.99 - Scuba Gear Customer Reviews
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Updated: 2011-11-04 15:58:14
Next year, to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, luxury travel company Horizon & Co. is offering submersible diving tours of the wreck of the famous ocean liner. For a mere $66,257 per person (double occupancy required), you can board an expedition dive ship in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that will take [...]Roman tombstone fished out of river in Croatia
Updated: 2011-11-03 17:57:10
Divers have discovered a Roman tombstone from the Drava river in Croatia. The relief shows a mythical scene, possibly Venus with two cupids, but archaeologists cannot be certain before the restoration work is completed. Both pieces are believed to date to the second or third century. Underwater archaeologist Kruno Zubcic discovered the find weighing 400 [...]Lost Roman camp found in Germany
Updated: 2011-11-03 13:18:08
A Roman cap which was the “missing link” in the chain of Roman defenses in western Germany has been found. Occupied between 11 and 7BC and the size of seven football pitches, the military installation was probably used to control crossings points on the Lippe and act a supply depot for outlying posts. “The monument [...]Remains of German WWI soldiers found in bombed-out tunnel
Updated: 2011-11-02 20:20:26
The bodies of 21 German soldiers who fought in World War I have been found in a bombed-out tunnel in France. The tunnel, six meters underground and 1.80 meters high, was built with German thoroughness, equipped with heating, telephone connections, electricity, beds and a pipe to pump out water. It had 16 exits and was [...]Two huge Buddhist statues found at Angkor Wat
Updated: 2011-11-02 17:17:55
Two large Buddhist statues have been unearthed in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex. Ly Vanna, an artifacts expert for the government’s Apsara Authority that oversees the site, said Thursday the two stone statues found at Ta Prohm temple were headless but the larger one if complete would stand about 10 feet (3 meters) tall. He [...]Prehistoric ceremonial site unearthed in Ireland
Updated: 2011-11-02 15:10:17
Archaeologists working at Cave Hill in Ireland have discovered what they believe to be a prehistoric ceremonial site. Dr Welsh also drew attention to a piece of sandstone which was uncovered at the site and has been inscribed with a unique design. “We have a piece of sandstone and someone has gone to the trouble [...]EU sends $145 million to preserve Pompeii
Updated: 2011-11-02 13:07:20
The ancient city of Pompeii has been in the news as of late due to poor preservation practices which have caused structures to collapse. Now the European Union has sent $145 million to aid in conservation efforts. The European Commission will keep constant control over the (Italian) plan (to protect) Pompeii,’ Hahn said, adding that [...]Henderson Demo 3mm H2 Hyperstretch Titanium Shorty Wetsuit - $125.95
Updated: 2011-11-02 07:09:49Shipping Rates Security Privacy Order Status My Account Wish List Cart Call our certified SCUBA instructors 800-34-SCUBA 7 days 8AM 6PM PST Price Protection Full Warranties Scuba Resources Happy Customers Search No Sales Tax 150 Price Protection Full Manufacturer's Warranty Scuba Equipment Packages Personal Gear Packages Diving Systems Camera Packages Snorkeling Packages Wetsuit Packages Product Categories Bags Books Videos and CDs Boots Buoyancy Compensators Cameras Clips and Reels Closeouts Clothing Communication Compressors Computers Dive Skins Dry Boxes Dry Suits Fins Free Diving Gauges Gift Certificate Gift Items Gloves Hood Hookah Systems Kayaks Kidz Gear Knives Lights Masks Miscellaneous Octos Spare Air Regulators Safety First Aid Scooters Snorkels Spearguns Surfing Swimming TanksMassive Viking settlement found in Ireland
Updated: 2011-11-01 21:58:10
One of the first Viking settlements in Ireland has been found just south of Dundalk. Folklore said it was there, but all traces of it had disappeared, until a group of archaeologists and local historians set out to prove its existence. Extensive field research and test digs have now done that. What they found was [...]Neanderthals short legs helped them move over rough terrain
Updated: 2011-11-01 16:22:56
A study of Neanderthal leg length has revealed that their short legs would have allowed them to move more efficiently over the mountainous terrain where they lived. “Studies looking at limb length have always concluded that a shorter limb, including in Neandertals, leads to less efficiency of movement, because they had to take more steps [...]1,000-year-old human skull found on banks of lake
Updated: 2011-10-31 23:13:15
Two fisherman have caught a 1,000-year-old human skull on the banks of Lake Georgetown in Texas. Black said further down from Lake Georgetown, near the San Gabriel River, researchers discovered a cemetery dating back between 1,000 and 1,500 years old. He said the skull might have come from a similar site. “When you only have [...]900-year-old Sican tomb found in Peru
Updated: 2011-10-31 20:07:33
An ancient Sican tomb belonging to an elite figure has been found in northern Peru. “We have been digging since last February and in the zone we called the Palace, a chamber had been detected and that led to the discovery of the tomb of someone very important of the Lambayeque elite, approximately from the [...]13th century Mongolian shipwreck found off Japanese coast
Updated: 2011-10-31 17:28:10
A Mongolian shipwreck which dates back to the 13th century has been found off the coast of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture’s University of the Ryukyus has announced that large parts of a Mongolian ship presumed to have been part of a 13th century Yuan Dynasty-era invasion fleet has been discovered on the seafloor near Nagasaki. The [...]Skeletons of couple holding hands found in Italy
Updated: 2011-10-31 15:24:46
The 1,500-year-old remains of a couple found holding hands has been unearthed in Modena, Italy. Italian archaeologists say the man and woman were buried at the same time between the 5th and 6th century A.D. in central-northern Italy. Wearing a bronze ring, the woman is positioned so she appears to be gazing at her male [...]9,000-year-old stone tools found in Mexico
Updated: 2011-10-31 13:23:10
Stone tools which date back to the Holocene era have been discovered in northwestern Mexico. The objects were found at an archaeological site known as El Coyote, located in the Los Cabos region, the INAH said, adding that they “bolster the hypothesis” that the first colonists of the hemisphere populated the region via watercraft migration, [...]The Staffordshire Hoard on display in DC
Updated: 2011-10-29 12:00:22Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold from England’s Dark Ages, on display at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, DC, through March 4, includes over a hundred of the artifacts from the Staffordshire Hoard, dating to about 650 A.D. Explore the history behind the gold hoard as you travel back in time thirteen hundred years to Mercia, one of [...]Blackbeard’s cannon lifted from ocean floor
Updated: 2011-10-28 23:33:53
The pirate Blackbeard’s 300-year-old cannon has been raised from the ocean floor off the coast of North Carolina. [Thx Mike!] The eight-foot-long cannon was covered in sand and ocean debris called “concretion,” which will take archaeologists and students at East Carolina University as many as eight years to crack through before getting to the metal [...]Caravaggio exhibition in Texas
Updated: 2011-10-16 08:00:42Caravaggio and His Circle in Rome is at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, through January 8.