Maritime History

Ancient shipwreck provides a window into maritime trade between ancient Greece, Carthage and Phoenicia around the island of Sicily

In the beginning... a review of Treasures, Shipwrecks and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving, by Howard Rosenstein, published by Dived Up

The Italian WWII torpedo boat Aldebaran is a popular Aegean tech dive - Kostas Thoctarides provides the history of her sinking

The wreck of a British submarine that vanished without a trace in the Agean Sea during the Second World War has been found after a 26-year search

The 2024 Historical Diving Society conference presentations span diving history from the Middle Ages, Tudor times and into the 20th century

The deal to sink the SS United States off Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida is close to being finalised by Okaloosa County Council

The 1856 wreck of Lyonnais, a passenger ship that sank with the loss of 114 lives, has been discovered by a team from Atlantic Wreck Salvage

Scientists have discovered a bronze dagger with silver rivets in the wreckage of an ancient Minoan vessel off the coast of Türkiye.

The first expedition to the San José returns with new archaeological findings, but no mention of its reported $20 billion worth of treasure

The wreck of the British liner SS Arcadian, sunk by a German torpedo during WWI, has been located off the Greek island of Sifnos.

The Chinese salvage vessel allegedly responsible for desecrating two British WWII shipwrecks has be detained by the MMEA - again.

The oldest known deep-sea shipwreck, containing hundreds of intact amphorae, has been discovered 90km off the coast of Israel.

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Quest, has been located off the Labrador coast by Royal Canadian Geographical Society-led team

The ship's bell of the USS Jacob Jones, the first US Navy destroyer to be sunk by enemy action during WWI, has been returned to the US Navy

Maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University have recovered two medieval grave slabs from the remains of the 13th Century Mortar Wreck

TOman has sunk an underwater 'military museum' for scuba divers, set to open to tourists in July later this year

BBC documentary to highlight the search for a lost German WWI submarine and the British ship that sank her

The remains of an 18th-century shipwreck discovered in the Florida Keys have been positively identified as those of HMS Tyger