In 2008, miners sifting through the sands of Namibia’s Sperrgebiet — a restricted diamond mining zone near the Skeleton Coast ...

LOST artefacts from Titanic’s wrecked sister ship have been recovered for the first time more than a century after a mine ...

A diver stumbled across the find of a lifetime off the coast of Sardinia when a stray shiny item loosened itself from the sea grass below. That metallic sheen turned out to herald a bounty of more ...

History presents the Whydah Gally's crew as swashbuckling sailors who looted a fortune before perishing in a storm. But ...

The F.J. King was a 144-foot, three-masted cargo schooner that was built in Ohio back in 1867, but sunk when a powerful gale ...

Oceans have long hidden the remains of ships that never completed their journeys. Many went down with vast amounts of cargo. Some of them were intended for trade, while the rest were looted in war.

Archaeologists surveying a Wisconsin river believe they unexpectedly stumbled upon a ship that sank in 1880. Researchers with the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Underwater Archeology ...

When a violent winter storm pummeled a small Scottish island in February 2024, it unearthed buried treasure ‒ a strange wooden beam found near the ocean’s edge. It belonged to an 18 th-century London ...

The 73-metre Rodondo left Adelaide on October 2, 1894, carrying passengers and cargo during the peak of the Western Australian gold rush. But just days later on October 7, 1894 it hit Pollock Reef off ...

Olson told Door County Pulse, "I pulled over the wreck, and it definitely looked like a shipwreck." What he had found was the Frank D. Barker, a canal-length schooner built in New York in 1867. It ...

The Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association were using sonar to search the Fox River in Oshkosh in spring 2025. Researchers were expecting to locate the Berlin ...