Marine archaeology

The wreck of the USS Nevada has been located 75 miles off the coast of Hawaii at a depth of nearly three miles. It’s…

The ill-fated Franklin Expedition to map the Northwest Passage resulted in the loss of two ships, one of which, the…

Archaeologists have spotted an 8,000-year-old wooden platform in the waters off southern Great Britain.

After 77 years, the wreck of the USS Hornet has finally been found, lying more than three miles deep in South…

The remains of SM UC-61, a World War I German minelaying submarine (also known as a U-boat) is resurfacing on the…

A remarkably intact ancient Greek merchant ship from 2,400 years ago has been found at the bottom of the Black Sea.

The Franklin Expedition, a 19th-century mission to chart a fabled northwest passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific…

In August 1943, the USS Abner Read struck a Japanese naval mine while conducting patrols in the Bering Sea. The…

A missing Russian Imperial Navy cruiser said to contain 200 tons of gold bullion worth an estimated $133 billion has…

In the dying days of World War II, a German sub was reportedly sunk near the Danish coast, but the wreck was never…

On May 25, 1798, the HMS DeBraak was entering Delaware Bay when a squall struck without warning. The British ship…

A team of civilian explorers led by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has located the wreck of the USS Juneau, an…

Remember those World War II shipwrecks that mysteriously vanished from the bottom of the Java Sea? When they were…

Old-timey pirates are typically portrayed as stupid, unrefined thugs whose only interests involved plundering…

Just six weeks into the First World War, Australian submarine HMAS AE1 disappeared without a trace somewhere off the…

A mere eight hours after Britain declared war on the Nazis, a German torpedo struck the SS Athenia, sinking the…

A trove of new artifacts have been recovered from the Roman-era wreck that yielded the mysterious Antikythera…

Marine archaeologists have discovered a German submarine off the coast of Belgium in the North Sea. The U-boat dates…

German researchers have discovered the wreck of U-581, a Nazi sub that sunk near the Azores in February 1942. The…

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, NOAA scientists will explore two Japanese mini…