Shipwreck

LOOK: 200-Year-Old Shipwreck Discovered In Gulf

Posted 05.31.2012

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Scientists exploring marine life in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year uncovered a shipwreck site believed to be 200 years old. The site was scatter...

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Crew Members of the USS Monitor: Solving the Mystery of the Skeletons in the Turret 150 Years Later

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Ironclad, Dna, History, Military, Bones, Civil War, Memorial Day, Sailors, Mystery, Forensics, Genealogy, Genetics, Maritime, Navy, USS Monitor, Shipwreck, Culture News

Who doesn't love a good history mystery? You don't have to be a Civil War buff to be fascinated with the attempt to identify the two skeletons found in the turret of the USS Monitor when it was raised from the ocean floor a decade ago.

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Scientists May Recreate Beer From 1840s Shipwreck

Reuters | Posted 05.10.2012

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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Want a 170-year-old beer? Finnish researchers say they may be able to recreate beer from the 1840s after finding l...

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Women and Children First? The Wishful Thinking of Titanic Dynamics

Juliette Fretté | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Equality, Women and Children, Chivalry, Titanic, Shipwreck, Children Well-Being, Gender Dynamics, Politics News

As a group, the young are without question more vulnerable and innocent than adults and thus tug at our heart strings. And though most across the political spectrum can reach a rational consensus to safeguard children above gender, race, and class, does it actually happen?

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Titanic Sinking Raises Question: Could Similar Disaster Happen Today?

Posted 04.12.2012

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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/12/2012 07:33 AM EDT on LiveScience A century ago on Sunday, the RMS Titanic hit a...

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LOOK: Divers Pull Sunken Treasure From 17th Century Shipwreck

AP | ROBIN McDOWELL | Posted 05.31.2012

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MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia — Mamat Evendi straps on his primitive breathing device – a garden hose attached to a compressor on the back o...

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LOOK: Titanic Artifacts On Display At National Geographic

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 03.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- There's hardly a catastrophe like the sinking of Titanic that elicits as much wonder as it does horror. The National Geographic Museum t...

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Treasure Hunting in the 21st Century

Manuel Garcia Hernandez | Posted 05.09.2012

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On October 5, 1804, the Santa María de las Mercedes sank, filled with gold and silver coins, worth $500 million. The treasure lay on the ocean floor for over two centuries, until, in 2007, it was discovered and a new battle began.

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Faces of 2 USS Monitor Crewmembers Reconstructed

AP | By STEVE SZKOTAK | Posted 03.03.2012

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RICHMOND, Va. -- When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were d...

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Shipwreck Treasure: Trans-Atlantic Voyage Near End

AP | MITCH STACY | Posted 04.25.2012

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TAMPA, Fla. — A 17-ton haul of silver coins, lost for two centuries in the wreck of a sunken Spanish galleon, began its journey back to its home...

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Peru Claims Last Minute Appeal

AP | MITCH STACY | Posted 04.24.2012

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TAMPA, Fla. — Peru's government filed a long-shot claim on Thursday for 17 tons of silver recovered from a 19th century shipwreck, one day befor...

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PHOTOS: Divers Aim To Solve Mystery Of Rhode Island Shipwreck

AP | DAVID KLEPPER | Posted 05.01.2012

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WESTERLY, R.I. (Associated Press) — For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beac...

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LOOK: Satellite Image Of Costa Concordia Shipwreck

The Huffington Post | John Stephens | Posted 01.18.2012

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Commercial satellite operator DigitalGlobe has released a high-resolution satellite image of the Costa Concordia shipwreck as seen from space. (PH...

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Husband Sacrifices Life Jacket For Wife, Disappears Into Water After Cruise Ship Sinks

Posted 01.16.2012

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He did what any husband would have done for his wife. As the Costa Concordia cruise ship went down off the west coast of Italy Jan. 13, Nicole Serv...

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Titanic Auction: Largest Trove Of Artifacts From Infamous Shipwreck To Be Sold

AP | By STEVE SZKOTAK | Posted 12.29.2011

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RICHMOND, Va. -- The owner of the largest trove of artifacts salvaged from the Titanic is putting the vast collection up for auction as a single lot i...

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U.S. Treasure Hunters Find WWII Shipwreck Carrying Millions In Silver

AP | Posted 11.27.2011

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TAMPA, Fla. -- Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. on Monday said it confirmed the identity and location of a World War II-era shipwreck believed to be ca...

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Watch: Wreck Confirmed As Blackbeards Ship

Posted 10.31.2011

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Officials in North Carolina have confirmed that a wreck discovered off the state's coast in 1996 once belonged to the infamous pirate known as Blackbe...

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Well-Preserved Ancient Shipwreck Found Off Albania

AP | LLAZAR SEMINI | Posted 10.22.2011

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TIRANA, Albania — A U.S.-Albanian archaeological mission said Monday it has found the well-preserved wreck of a Roman cargo ship off Albania's c...

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Exploring the Deep Ocean -- Emory Kristof's Pioneering Photography (VIDEO)

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.21.2011

National Geographic photographer Emory Kristof loves to do deep things no one else has done before.

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PHOTOS: Lake Michigan Shipwreck FOUND After 112 Years

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MILWAUKEE -- A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreli...

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Shipwreck: Robinson Crusoe and Me

Rebecca Chace | Posted 05.25.2011

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If I could speak to my father I would tell him to come home now. The land of the dead is no place for him.

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Shipwrecks, Possibly 800 Years Old, Found In Swedish Area Of Baltic Sea

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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STOCKHOLM — A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks – some of them unusually well-preserved – have been found in the Baltic Sea by a gas co...

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Naperville Man Survives Three-Day Shipwreck On Ketchup And Chinese Takeout

Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard McClow is tough. At 79, he's survived a triple-bypass and is a competitive swimmer. But three days shipwrecked on a tiny Bahamian island can b...

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500-Year-Old Sunken Treasure Found

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 11.17.2011

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins _ and cannons to fend off pirates. But it...

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