After more than two decades on the Delaware waterfront, it’s being prepped in Mobile, Ala., for its final (assisted) cruise and new life as the world’s largest artificial reef ...

Treasures lost to time still fascinate the world and spark curiosity among adventurers and history lovers alike. In this ...

What if, instead of donning scuba gear or riding a deep-sea submersible into the depths, you could see real life shipwrecks on land? In the Ocean State, you can. Thousands of ships have been wrecked, ...

Extensive fungal decay persists on the USS Cairo, and further research is needed to understand these organisms. Better ...

A new preliminary assessment into the MS Estonia passenger ferry that sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 claiming 852 lives will ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch. In ...

Here’s what you'll learn when you read this story: Greece’s Ministry of Culture approved a tricky diving mission that allowed the recovery of select artifacts from the sunken Britannic, the sister ...

It seems fighter planes and bombers weren't the only vehicles aboard a famous U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War II. A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the ...

Dubbed the "holy grail of shipwrecks," the ship is believed to hold 11 million gold and silver coins, emeralds and other precious cargo.

The number of Koreans aboard a Japanese ship that sank in 1945, killing up to over 3,000 people, will likely be revealed by ...

After a vessel has served its purpose, it presents something of a problem. What do you do with a massive machine that weighs thousands of tons? Fortunately, there are several options depending on the ...