Discovered in 1900 in a shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera, this artifact initially appeared to be a nondescript lump of metal. However, when it cracked open, intricate gears were ...

Thirty feet under the surface of the cold, murky Baltic Sea, Brendan Foley spotted something unusual in the wreckage of an ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s ...

State and federal laws protect the shipwreck, meaning divers may not remove artifacts or structures when visiting the site. Removing, defacing, displacing, or destroying artifacts or sites is a ...

The U.S. government has scrapped its litigation against the company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic, noting that the firm no longer has dive plans to the shipwreck that could break ...

Firm Has No Plans to Salvage More Titanic Artifacts, Shelving Legal Fight ... noting that the firm no longer has dive plans to the shipwreck that could break federal law. The scuttling of the ...

But a group of experts who studied the wreck site between 2017 and 2019 found that the metal box was sinking and threatened to crush the shipwreck. In the summer of 2023, archaeologists began to ...