When the USS Hornet sunk in World War II, a tractor used to move aircraft went down too. Now a recovery mission is being ...

Last year, he reported another shipwreck, which turned out to be the Grey Eagle, a schooner constructed in 1857 that sank in 1869. The year before that, he came across the Sunshine, a scow schooner ...

An ancient piece of volcanic rock plucked from the central Pacific Ocean did something unexpected when a scientist hit it ...

A new survey revealed and mapped 13 WWII wrecks. The mission combined archaeology, technology, and remembrance. An ...

World War I (1914 to 1918) and World War II (1939 to 1945) saw some of the biggest naval battles and operations in history, and shipwrecks from this era are scattered across the world's oceans ...

Outnumbered and outgunned, the crew of the U.S.S. Johnston fought overwhelming odds before their ship sank more than 21,000 ...

The USS New Orleans was struck by a Japanese “Long Lance” torpedo during the November 1942 Battle of Tassafaronga, off the ...

Divers and remotely operated vehicles discovered a wide array of vessels in Lake Constance — from century-old paddle steamers to a fully intact cargo sailing ship.

One of the last known subchasers built to defend the U.S. in World War II has spent the past 80 years sitting in North ...

German researchers have found 31 shipwrecks in Lake Constance, with one nearly completely preserved cargo sailing ship with its mast and yard still in place.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott's famous polar ship Terra Nova has been extensively filmed for the first time, revealing ...

Researchers on the Ocean Exploration Trust vessel Nautilus conducted an archaeological survey of 13 shipwrecks from the Solomon Islands campaign, one of the war’s fiercest naval confrontations.