Last week the yacht, Making Waves, a 48 foot Sea Ray Sundancer, with its engine running and the autopilot engaged, came ashore on Redding Beach, FL, on the Gulf of Mexico, with no one aboard. The boat is estimated to be worth around a million dollars. Not quite the Mary Celeste but mysterious all the [...]
Stan Roger‘s classic song begins, “Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage; to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea.” Stan died in 1983, but his son, Nathan Rogers, also a singer, recently set out on the Canadian cruise ship Clipper Adventurer bound for the Arctic via the Northwest [...]
Another article about stowaways, though of a completely different sort – zebra mussels on the Brig Niagara. Earlier this month, the Niagara, a historically accurate reconstruction of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s victorious 1813 flagship, visited Isle Royale, an island National Park in northwestern Lake Superior under terms of a special use permit that required that the ship be free [...]
One of the ways that stowaways can get aboard liner ships these days is to hide in cargo containers. Atlantic Container Lines will be using containers for a related if rather different purpose. The shipping line will soon take delivery of five containers converted to temporary prison cells to hold stowaways found aboard their ships. [...]
Despite all odds, earlier this month, 492 Tamil refugees arrived in Vancouver in an old and barely seaworthy ship, then named the Sun Sea. The Tamil Ghost ship, as she has been dubbed, had been intermittently tracked by the maritime authorities of various nations as she made her way from Thailand to Canada, changing names and registries along the way. The [...]
By Pete Hardie - Santa Barbara Independent
Researchers hope to use sonar images of the SS Montebello to determine if the sunken vessel could leak oil. The Montebello Assessment Task Force sent a robotic submersible down to the wreck — which lies seven miles off California’ coast, near Cambria — last week. The vessel’ tanks are presumed to still contain the three million gallons of Santa Maria crude oil that were loaded before its departure in December 1941.The SS Montebello...
Dry weather in the UK has revealed “cropmarks” indicating the presence of hundreds of previously unknown archaeological sites. The surveys show marks made when crops growing over buried features develop at a different rate from those nearby. The newly-discovered Roman and prehistoric settlements include a site near Bradford Abbas, Dorset. The Roman camp was revealed [...]
This weeks photo was taken by gCaptain Staff from a roof top in downtown San Francisco, California. It is of a Container Ship operated by Yang Ming passing through San Francisco Bay. Digg this! Share this on Facebook Post on Google Buzz Share this on LinkedIn Email this to a friend? Share this on Reddit [...]
By Lacie Lowry - The News On 6
A massive restoration project is under way in Muskogee on a true war hero. The USS Batfish is a World War II submarine that's highly decorated with military honors, but her condition has highly deteriorated over the years.A group of Active Duty and Reserve Chief Petty Officers of the United States Navy spent Saturday painting the USS Batfish black, restoring the submarine to her glory days of World War II."It amazes me how many people don't realize we have a sub...
By Marilyn Ong - he Star
Sunken treasures ! The very words conjure up dazzling visions of romance and adventure on the high seas. Professor Augustine Vinh speaks on the perils of collecting sunken treasures.Internationally acclaimed sunken treasure hunter and collector Professor Augustine Vinh does not at all comply with one’ image of a treasure hunter — deeply-tanned and with rock solid physique.“I don’ dive nor scour the sea beds, picking up centuries-old porcelain...
By Edward D. Murphy Kennebec Journal
Treasure hunter Greg Brooks, who led a trouble-plagued relief mission to Haiti last winter, has set his sights on a salvage job with both business and humanitarian components.Brooks, who is from Gorham, wants to put his sea salvage skills to work removing an estimated 16,000 pounds of valuable mercury from a 66-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Maine. He contends the mission would defuse a ticking environmental time bomb, though scientists have concluded...
The 10,000-year-old remains of a child have been found in an underwater cave in Mexico. The remains of a prehistoric child were removed from an underwater cave in Mexico four years after divers stumbled upon the well-preserved corpse that offers clues to ancient human migration. The skeletal remains of the boy, dubbed the Young [...]
By Monica Haynes - Post-Gazette.com
Be prepared to spend at least 90 minutes, probably longer on the weekends when attendance tends to be heavier. There are 140 artifacts from a variety of sources, including the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, cultural institutions such as the Egyptian Museum in Berlin and private collectors. Among the artifacts are ancient coins that archaeologists believe bear Cleopatra's likeness. And guess what ? She looked nothing like Elizabeth Taylor.Still, like...
By Keith Morelli - The Tampa Tribune
In the pitch-black depths of an isolated North Port spring sits a silt-covered ledge that is revealing secrets about a prehistoric nomadic people, secrets held in murky silence for 100 centuries.Now, with diving gear and artifact-collecting bags, archaeologists with the University of Miami and The Florida Aquarium are sweeping away the muck and uncovering that distant past.This stuff could be as old as 13,000 years old, when wandering tribes traversed Florida....
From bs4.com
The bar was in an exhibit that allowed people to hold it without danger of theft, or so museum operators thought. The insurance company is offering a $10 thousand reward.It was a piece of history worth half-a-million dollars that you could reach out and touch, part of the treasure from the galleon Santa Maria on display at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West. But where the bar used to be is now an empty exhibit. Apparently, someone managed to baffle security and walk...
By rian Handwerk - National Geographic News
Slipping beneath the waves on April 15, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic famously disappeared from view until 1985, when it was rediscovered on the bottom of the North Atlantic. ow, scientists say, the legendary liner—beset by metal-eating life-forms, powerful currents, and possibly even human negligence—could be vanishing for good. Titanic is falling apart.Already explorers have documented caved-in roofs, weakening decks, a stern perhaps...
By Jamie Tarabay - NPR
They call it the mystery ship: a wooden vessel that may have sailed the Hudson River and the East Coast, transporting goods between the flourishing Colonies. Its remains were found last month in the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City. They've since been moved to a science lab in Maryland, where each day brings new discoveries.The first thing that hits you when you lean toward the enormous tanks filled with water, where scientists use small brushes to clean...
By Peter Schworm - Boston.com
A team of top scientists, launching what is billed as the most ambitious and advanced survey of the Titanic, sets out next week to map in photographic detail the entire wreck site, and reconstruct in electronic form the ruins scattered on the seabed.By melding photographs, high-definition video and computer imaging, scientists — including experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute — plan to create a three-dimensional computer model that will allow...
By Amanda Kerr - The Virginia Gazette
Two years ago a sonar company in Gloucester was testing equipment in the York River when the crew hit the jackpot: an uncharted shipwreck on the river bottom.“That was quite a surprise,” said David Hazzard, an archaeologist with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.The area where the ship was found is well-documented. There have previously been nine documented shipwrecks in the York River associated with the Revolutionary War and the...
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