An underwater look at wrecks that rest only miles apart in the Gulf of Mexico. The Robert E. Lee, a passenger steamer that was attacked en route from New Orleans to Trinidad, is seen in this image ...

Swedish researchers are hoping to excavate a potentially very informative shipwreck from near Stockholm, one that speaks to an era in the 15th century, when ships were carrying increasingly heavy ...

A dive team has identified a shipwreck off the coast of Nantucket as a World War I-era fishing boat that sank nearly 100 years ago with more than 20 men aboard. The ST Seiner was last seen in January ...

A massive cargo ship dating back 600 years has been discovered underwater, offering rare insight into medieval European trade.

BACKGROUND: It's now a twisted hulk of concrete and rebar poking out of the bay at Sunset Beach at the end of Sunset Boulevard in Cape May Point. But the Atlantus is a wonderful example of American ...

Archaeologists have discovered the wreck of the Dutch trading ship Koning Willem de Tweede off the coast of Robe, South Australia, after an intensive four-year search. The vessel, which had been ...

The Western Reserve, an all-steel freighter that sank in 1892, has been found in Lake Superior. The 300-foot freighter has become known for the tragic series of events that unfolded after it sank. The ...

It has been 40 years since explorers found the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor. A former navy officer and a French oceanographer made the discovery with an unmanned submersible. On Sept. 1, ...

BAILEYS HARBOR, Wis. -- Brendon Baillod wasn't expecting to find the F.J. King. Sure, the president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association (WUAA) had researched the old schooner's wreck.

The wreck of a “ghost ship” cargo schooner that sank off a Wisconsin coastline during a ferocious storm has finally been uncovered 140 years later. A team led by researcher Brandon Baillod found the ...

The Brazilian navy said Thursday it has set up a crisis team to handle potential environmental damage caused by a ship loaded with iron ore that is at risk of sinking after an accident. An aerial ...

Inevitably, when a maritime accident like the one involving U.S.-flagged chemical tanker Stena Immaculate and the Portuguese-flagged container vessel Solong happens, the first question invariably is ...