• Investigating the Battle of the Atlantic wrecks

    Updated: 2012-02-06 14:39:33
    Underwater archaeologists are diving off the coast of North Carolina to investigate the WWII shipwrecks from the Battle of the Atlantic. During the first six months of 1942, German U-boats, often hunting in wolf packs, sank ship after ship just miles off the East Coast of the United States, concentrating their ambushes along North Carolina, [...]

  • SS Port Nicholson, the “Blue Baron” and the 70 Tons of Platinum – Déjà Vu ?

    Updated: 2012-02-06 13:02:07
    We recently posted about a press release by Sub Sea Research (SSR) claiming to have located the wreck of a British cargo ship sunk in June 1942 by the German submarine U87. Sub Sea Research claims that the ship was carrying 70 tons of platinum … Continue reading →

  • Scuba Diving Log Book Entry: Decatur, GA

    Updated: 2012-02-05 22:59:00
    : , Diver : Name Rayshawn Hill Dive : Date February 5, 2012 Dive : Location Decatur , GA Max : Depth 12 ft Total Bottom : Time 3 hrs Notes : Comments I really love to go underwater as long as I can just like the special forces in the us . army : Votes 0 Vote for this entry View All Entries

  • Scuba Diving Log Book Entry: Decatur, GA

    Updated: 2012-02-05 22:52:36
    : , Diver : Name Rayshawn Dive : Date 2-5-12 Dive : Location Decatur , GA Max : Depth 12ft Total Bottom : Time 3 hrs Notes : Comments I want to win a 100 gift card : Votes 1 Vote for this entry View All Entries

  • Scuba Diving Log Book Entry: ?

    Updated: 2012-02-05 20:04:20
    : Diver : Name dean shuck Dive : Date Dive : Location Max : Depth 240 Total Bottom : Time 1 Notes : Comments 510 marie glassport pa 15045 : Votes 0 Vote for this entry View All Entries

  • World’s Largest Cruise Ship Sucks the Water off Fort Lauderdale Beach [VIDEO/IMAGES]

    Updated: 2012-02-05 17:28:37
    As Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas departed Port Everglades, Florida last week, the hydrodynamic response of the ship as it interacted with the surrounding tidal areas left beach-goers puzzled, and for [...]

  • Spain awarded $500 million “Black Swan” treasure

    Updated: 2012-02-05 04:57:06
    In May of 2007, Odyssey Marine Exploration, a privately owned marine treasure-hunting company, discovered a Spanish shipwreck somewhere on the Atlantic seabed. Odyssey refused to divulge the exact location or the name of the ship. They ultimately recovered 17 tons of silver coins, plus almost 100,000 gold coins and a number of other artifacts from [...]

  • Container Ship MOL Summer Rescued 116 of 246 Survivors of Capsized Ferry

    Updated: 2012-02-05 00:40:52
    The officers and crew of the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines container ship, MOL Summer, deserve a special commendation for their rescue of 116 people following the capsizing and sinking of the passenger ferry MV Rabaul Queen off the coast of Papua New Guinea early Thursday. Eight merchant vessels assisted in … Continue reading →

  • British Passenger Seen Falling Overboard from Cruise Ship Allure of the Seas

    Updated: 2012-02-04 14:05:20
    On Friday morning, a British passenger was seen falling overboard  fell from the balcony of his cruise ship cabin on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship,  the Allure of the Seas, while cruising off the coast of Mexico, near the island of Cozumel.  The Allure of the Seas with a capacity of … Continue reading →

  • Treasure hunter claims to have found $3 billion haul

    Updated: 2012-02-03 22:22:55
    A treasure hunter and his crew have found the wreckage of the SS Port Nicholson, and believe it may contains $3 billion worth of platinum. The merchant ship was sunk by a German U-boat back in 1942, but the British government says that it’s not so sure that it actually contained the treasure — thought [...]

  • Large piece of 140-year-old shipwreck washes ashore

    Updated: 2012-02-03 16:56:09
    A substantial piece of the Jennie and Annie, a schooner which sank 140 years ago, has washed ashore on a Lake Michigan beach. Sleeping Bear Dunes historians believe the schooner fragment, estimated to be about 40-feet long and peppered with twisted metals spikes, is part of the ship’s bilge keelsons, which the Oxford Handbook of [...]

  • Battle-worn Viking axe head found in England

    Updated: 2012-02-03 14:55:05
    A Viking axe head found in Gloucestershire may be evidence of a bloody battle fought 1,100 years ago. According to historians King Alfred the Great fought the Vikings in a bloody battle at Minchinhampton, about 10 miles from Slimbridge, in 894 AD. Three Viking princes were killed in the battle, and fighting could have ranged [...]

  • Body Glove Demo 1mm Aura Super-Stretch Reversible Surf Shirt - $44.95

    Updated: 2012-02-03 07:12:29
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  • California Wreck Divers Annual Banquet

    Updated: 2012-02-03 07:12:26
    Scuba Diving Event March 3: El Segundo, CA, USAwe are honored to have zale perry, pioneering lady diver, depth record holder, actress, stunt-woman, safety diver, scuba instructor, movie maker and accomplished underwater photographer, scuba equipment developer and world famous author. zale will be our guest speaker at our annual awards banquet saturday, march 3th, 2012. mark your calendars and dont miss this exciting presentation!

  • Japanese WWII land mines discovered in Philippines

    Updated: 2012-02-02 16:26:02
    A number of Japanese land mines installed during WWII have been found dotting the coastline of Kawit Island in the Philippines. Bersales related that at the Talisay City landing on March 26, 1945, the American forces were surprised that there was no resistance or gunfire from the beach. But the coastline was lined with land [...]

  • Passenger Ferry, MV Rabaul Queen, Sinks Off Papua New Guinea

    Updated: 2012-02-02 13:56:30
    Between 5 and 6 AM Thursday morning, the passenger ferry, MV Rabaul Queen, capsized about 10 miles off Finschhafen on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea.  The ferry had a capacity for 300 people, but as many as 350 people are believed to have … Continue reading →

  • Scuba Diving Log Book Entry: key west

    Updated: 2012-02-02 01:33:48
    : Diver : Name kristian king Dive : Date Dive : Location key west Max : Depth 20 . ft Total Bottom : Time Notes : Comments love diving wish i could do more often : Votes 1 Vote for this entry View All Entries

  • Byzantine cemetery in Turkey repeatedly plundered

    Updated: 2012-02-01 21:30:54
    A Byzantine cemetery in Istanbul’s Çatalca district has been repeatedly plundered for years. Who knows what history has been lost as a result? “Grave diggers have swarmed into the region when the excavation work in the cemetery came to an end in 1995 upon the order of the Archeology Museum. Unlicensed excavations take place inside [...]

  • Germany returns looted artifacts to Afghanistan

    Updated: 2012-02-01 19:27:23
    This week Germany returned some ancient artifacts that were looted from Afghanistan’s National Museum during their civil war. “This is a masterpiece … I am optimistic that in the future we will get the other artefacts back,” said Omara Khan Massoudi, the director of Afghanistan’s National Museum, which housed the sculpture before it was stolen. [...]

  • Costa Concordia: Underwater Video of Divers’ Inspection

    Updated: 2012-02-01 18:05:20
    Thanks to BobK for pointing out this footage from the Telegraph of divers inspecting the hull and debris field nearby. The ship recently shifted about 3.8 cm (roughly 1.5″.) Costa Concordia: underwater footage shows divers’ inspection

  • 14th century road found in Vietnam

    Updated: 2012-02-01 16:25:21
    A stone road which dates back to the 14th century has been found outside of the Ho Citadel in Vietnam. The 2km road linking the citadel’s southern gate with the Nam Giao worship platform has been described as the “most beautiful old stone road ever built in the country”. Archaeologists excavated a total area of [...]

  • Remains of General Franco victims exhumed from mass grave

    Updated: 2012-02-01 14:23:48
    The remains of 17 women killed under General Francisco Franco’s regime in 1937 are being exhumed from a mass grave in Spain. Since the exhumation began last week, the remains of 14 of the 17 women have been discovered at the cemetery in the southwestern town of Gerena, said 25-year-old Lucia Socam, whose great-aunt Granada [...]

  • 1,300-year-old Zapotec kiln found in Mexico

    Updated: 2012-01-31 14:18:11
    A kiln which was used by the Zapotec 1,300 years ago has been found in the Atzompa Archaeology Site in Oaxaca, Mexico. “Preliminarily, it was assumed that it might date from the first occupation years of the site, between 650 and 900 of the Common Era, more than 1,300 years ago, parting from associated ceramic [...]

  • Pinnacle Demo Merino Titanium Lined Zippered Diving Hood - $26.95

    Updated: 2012-01-31 07:05:24
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  • 3,500-year-old pottery found on Northern Mariana Island

    Updated: 2012-01-30 21:46:35
    Ancient pottery and artifacts have been uncovered on the island of Tinian which could help researchers learn how people first came to the area. As the theory goes, about 3,000 to 3,500 years ago, sea levels around Asia began to drop, Peterson said. The main road in Tumon, for example, would have been completely under [...]

  • Prostate cancer found in 2,200-year-old mummy

    Updated: 2012-01-30 19:41:50
    Prostate cancer has been discovered in an Egyptian mummy which dates back 2,200 years. AUC professor Salima Ikram, a member of the team that studied the mummy in Portugal for two years, said Sunday the mummy was of a man who died in his forties. She said this was the second oldest known case of [...]

  • Using digital technologies to preserve the past

    Updated: 2012-01-30 15:00:11
    LiveScience has posted an interesting article about how archaeologists are using digital technologies to document excavations. In previous eras, researchers logged their data in notebooks, which were preserved along with photographs, maps and objects, in a physical archive. Rabinowitz can still access the notebooks and negatives of people who conducted research more than a hundred [...]

  • Long-lost temple discovered in Sudan

    Updated: 2012-01-27 21:26:37
    Archaeologists working in Sudan have found a long-lost temple which dates back to the Meroe period. The large temple compound is situated 130 km northwards of Khartoum. European travellers saw the remains of the temple in the early 19th century but then the temple disappeared in the desert, said Onderka who leads the Czech archaeology [...]

  • Trees to be removed from ancient hill-fort

    Updated: 2012-01-27 19:26:28
    For years the hill-fort known as the Mound of Down in Ireland has been hidden because of the trees growing across its surface. Now it is being cleared of those trees to expose the fortifications. The enclosure is defined by a massive bank and ditch that encircles what was once a drumlin island in the [...]

  • Arcimboldo exhibition in Milan

    Updated: 2012-01-27 05:00:56
    Arcimboldo, 1526–1593: Nature and Fantasy is at the Palazzo Reale in Milan through May 8.

  • Colonial slave port excavated in Brazil

    Updated: 2012-01-26 22:35:40
    One of the busiest slave ports in the Americas has been uncovered in Rio de Janerio after being buried for almost 200 years. Not far from here at least 500,000 Africans took their first steps into slavery in colonial Brazil, which took in far more slaves than the United States and where now half of [...]

  • Britain’s oldest house threatened by environmental change

    Updated: 2012-01-26 19:23:58
    Britain’s oldest house, found at the Star Carr Mesolithic site in North Yorkshire, is being threatened by its deteriorating surroundings. “The water table has fallen and the peat is shrinking and it is severely damaging the archaeology,” she said. “The water keeps the oxygen and bacteria out and because they are now going into these [...]

  • Mass grave contains bodies of decapitated viking mercenaries Mass grave contains bodies of decapitated viking mercenaries

    Updated: 2012-01-26 17:00:52
    Researchers believe a mass grave found in Cambridge in 2009 contains the bodies of 54 decapitated viking mercenaries. Unlike the frenzied mob attack that took place at Oxford, all the men were murdered methodically and beheaded in an unusual fashion from the front. The Cambridge academic said she believed the skeletons belonged to a group [...]

  • Duke Jean’s “Mourners” visit Richmond

    Updated: 2012-01-21 07:00:04
    “The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy,” consisting of forty sculptures from the tomb of Jean sans Peur (John the Fearless), the second Duke of Burgundy, will be at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts through April 15.

  • Tall Ships Have Arrived In Channel Islands Harbor!

    Updated: 2012-01-15 11:48:16
    Late in this past Thursday’s sun-drenched afternoon, the Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain arrived in Ventura County’s Channel Islands Harbor, following their passage north from Oceanside Harbor. Both ships finalized their arrival with single shot cannon salutes, their reports echoing through the harbor. The two, full-scale reproduction tall ships are here as part of [...]

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