A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

Eight decades after the Oryoku Maru was sunk by American bombs, specialist divers are returning to retrieve the 250 men still trapped inside.

The Pentagon has launched one of its largest-ever underwater recovery missions to retrieve American ...

In 1942, U.S. Navy salvage crews worked off the Atlantic coast to recover ships lost during the early years of World War II. Using massive floating cranes and coordinated diving teams, these ...

Year-around, welders, shipfitters, electricians, pipe welders and pipe fitters in Erie are building and repairing ships at the bayfront shipyard.

Divers were searching the Bermuda Triangle for lost WWII planes when they found an odd – and clearly human-made – artifact ...

On October 20, 1928, the shoreline of a volcanic crater lake 19 miles (30.58 km) south of Rome began to retreat. Heavy electric pumps started pulling water from the basin, lowering the surface by ...

USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $1 million from the owner of the tug Tagish after the vessel sank in Alaska’s Gastineau Channel and was later removed using fede ...

As naval warfare reemerges as a key strategy in the US war with Iran, World War II museum ships are finding new relevance.

World War II was the largest military conflict in world history, and every side built massive machines of war to try to outdo the other. Japan famously built the largest battleships ever made, the ...