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Crates on board the shipwreck may hold the lost furnishings of the Amber Room, which was looted from a Russian palace by invading German soldiers in 1941.

Nazi wreck may hold looted treasures from Russian palace's 'Amber Room'

By Tom Metcalfe published

Human Behavior
No lives were lost in the sinking of the USS Grenadier, but the crew were taken prisoners of war and suffered brutal tortures by the Japanese military.

Divers discover lost WWII submarine wreck off Southeast Asia

By Tom Metcalfe published

Divers in Southeast Asia have located the lost wreck of what's thought to be a U.S. Navy submarine that sank in 1943 after it was attacked by Japanese aircraft.

Archaeology
Scientists in Mexico have identified the wreck of La Union, a Mayan slave ship.

Mysterious Mexican wreck was an illegal slave ship

By Stephanie Pappas published

Archaeologists have identified the wreck of a Mexican steamer as La Union, an illegal slave ship that smuggled the Maya as cargo to Cuba.

Archaeology
The RMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10, 1912, four days before the disaster that claimed more than 1,500 lives.

An aurora that lit up the sky over the Titanic might explain why it sank

By Mindy Weisberger published

A geomagnetic storm that sparked spectacular aurora displays could also have contributed to the sinking of the Titanic.

Archaeology
Volunteer divers from the nonprofit Badewanne team discovered this Dutch fluit ship in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea.

Eerily well-preserved 17th-century ship found in the dark waters of the Baltic Sea

By Peter Dockrill published

Divers from Finland have made an unexpected discovery while exploring the depths of the Baltic Sea, finding an incredibly well-preserved shipwreck dating back almost 400 years.

Archaeology
The discoverers say the shipwreck of the Karlsruhe is lying upright on its keel beneath about 490 metres ( 1600 feet) of seawater near Norway's southern coast.

Wreck of WWII warship with Nazi symbol discovered off Norway

By Tom Metcalfe published

The wreck of a German warship torpedoed and sunk by a British submarine in 1940 has been discovered in deep water off the North Sea coast of southern Norway.

Archaeology
The remains of the RMS Titanic are rapidly corroding at the bottom of the North Atlantic. But a proposal to cut the ship’s telegraph machine from the wreck has drawn fierce criticism.

Salvagers may cut open the Titanic and pull out its 'voice', judge rules

By Brandon Specktor published

RMS Titanic Inc., an official salvager of the Titanic shipwreck, will now be allowed to cut open the ship and remove its telegraph.

Archaeology
Sonar scans show the wreck is broken in two parts on the seafloor. This scan shows the submarine's conning tower and bow section.

Explorers find Cold War-era submarine wreck off the coast of Oahu

By Tom Metcalfe published

A team of explorers have found the wreck of a United States Navy submarine that sank more than 60 years ago in deep water near the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Archaeology
The remains of the RMS Titanic are rapidly corroding at the bottom of the North Atlantic. But a proposal to cut the ship’s telegraph machine from the wreck has drawn fierce criticism.

Titanic's iconic telegraph 'voice' may be recovered. But some say the salvager is a 'greedy treasure hunter.'

By Tom Metcalfe published

Frantic distress messages were sent over the machine after the cruise liner slammed into an iceberg in 1912.

Archaeology
An aerial view of the Bermuda Triangle.

Bermuda Triangle theory busted: 1925 ship Cotopaxi found near Florida

By Laura Geggel published

Artifacts found by divers at the shipwreck hinted that these are the remains of the SS Cotopaxi.

Archaeology
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