Maritime History

Underwater archaeologists have recovered amphorae which may date a shipwreck off Turkey's Mediterranean coast as the oldest in the world

A Roman-era shipwreck thought to be more than 2,000 years old carrying hundreds of amphorae has been identified off the coast of Sicily.

A rare Bronze Age sword has been discovered by volunteer divers investigating historic wreck sites off the coast of Devon, southern UK

Diving archaeologist Christopher Dobbs has been recognised by the Society for Nautical Research for his work raising Tudor warship, Mary Rose

Greece’s Ministry of Culture has announced the creation of two new underwater archaeological sites that will be opened to divers

Scuba diver finds WWII-era explosive device during off Florida’s Treasure coast, leading to a beach closure and controlled detonation

Canadian underwater archaeologist Robert Grenier, who led the discovery of the 16th-century Basque whaling ship San Juan, has died aged 88

Archaeologists from Denmark’s Viking Ship Museum have uncovered the largest known medieval cog during surveys in Øresund, off Copenhagen

Daniel Zaccheo's drive trip to Naxos, Greece, gave him an evocative connection to his Grandfather, a Bristol Beaufighter pilot during WWII

An team of technical divers has located the wreck of HMS Nottingham, 110 years after she was sunk by a German U-boat

A review of The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-and-Run off the Coast of Nantucket By Jennifer N Sellitti, published by Schiffer Publishing

The wreck of the Japanese destroyer Teruzuki has been discovered in the Solomon Islands, 83 years after she was sunk by US torpedo boats

A 16th-century shipwreck discovered by accident has proven to be the deepest in French waters and appears 'frozen in time'

A new expedition to the wreck of San José finds a collection of coins that positively identify the 'Holy Grail of shipwrecks'

A scuba diver has been arrested, still wearing his wetsuit, for looting the remains of a 2,000 year-old Roman shipwreck in Mallorca

A deep-sea expedition by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers has revealed the first pictures of the WWI-era submarine, the USS F-1

The wreckage of a Royal Australian Air Force Baltimore bomber has been discovered 82 years after it was shot down off Antikythera, Greece.

A review of Treasures, Shipwrecks and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving, by Howard Rosenstein, published by Dived Up - now available in paperback

Montenegro's Wrecks4All project is hosting a 5-day training programme for budding marine archaeologists from Montenegro and Albania.

New colour-corrected images of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance show how the ship would have looked above the water

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

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.