Shipwrecks

From shipwrecks to an upright dining table to a dead giraffe, a cornucopia of strange objects have been discovered in the shadowy depths of New York City's waterways.

A diving mission to explore the Antikythera shipwreck is scheduled for September, 2014.

The U.S. Navy, in partnership with the Indonesian Navy, is planning to dive to the sunken USS Houston, a World War II-era shipwreck, later this month, according to Navy officials.

Fallen logs and wooden remnants of old shipwrecks promote hotspots of life in the otherwise empty deep seafloor.

In 1857, a steamship loaded with 30,000 pounds of gold sunk off the coast of South Carolina. An ocean exploration company is planning to recover the sunken treasure.

Watch live as a remotely operated vehicle explores debris and artifacts from one of the three mysterious shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico.

Photos of mysterious 19th century shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico.

A ship that sunk near San Francisco's Golden Gate in 1888 has been rediscovered by NOAA. The City of Chester sits upright in more than 200 feet of water.

The sudden sinking of a ferry carrying 475 passengers off South Korea's southern coast brings up the question: How can a large, modern passenger ship just sink?

Metal in ancient shipwrecks has value for both historians and scientists.

One cannon was recovered in 2011.

Sixteen men were lost when the USS Monitor went down in a storm off Cape Hatteras on Dec. 31, 1862.

New secrets surface of the Antikythera shipwreck discovered a century ago.

Researchers find more artifacts and possibly another sunken ship at the Antikythera site.

The four warships from the 1800s may reveal the site of an ancient Greek port.

The ship was built in 1893 and once hauled cargo between 3 continents.