A Greek merchant ship discovered more than a mile under the surface of the Black SeaThe Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Black_Sea
The discovery of the ancient Greek shipwreck “Odysseus,” thought to be the oldest of its kind ever found, at the bottom of the Black Sea could change our understanding of shipbuilding and seafaring in the ancient world.
The Pesse canoe is the world's oldest known ship, dating between 8040 and 7510 BC.
Although located in the same vicinity as the Johnston – east of Samar Island in the Philippine Sea – the USS Samuel B. Roberts (“DE 413”) lies almost 400 m (1,300 ft) deeper at 6,865 m (22,523 ft), as discovered on 22 June 2022.
The sunken treasures waiting for explorers. It's estimated there are around three million undiscovered shipwrecks around the world. Some are being searched for right now – and a few of those might even contain riches.
The San Jose – The Holy Grail of Sunken Treasures (1708) – $17 billion. One of the most precious shipwrecks in the world, the site of which remained unknown for over three centuries, was revealed in photographs by the Colombian army.
What is the most popular unfound shipwreck in the world? Flor de la Mar is the most famous shipwreck, filled with diamonds, gold and other riches.
“It is likely they use the shipwrecks for feeding, and as rest stops along their migration up and down the Atlantic coast. ...
WWII shipwreck, SS Sagaing, resurfaced
Now, crews were able to bring it back to the surface. A massive World War II shipwreck has been raised from the bottom of a harbor in Sri Lanka 75 years after the vessel was sunk following an attack by Japanese forces.
The ship was found drifting with its crew missing on 3 January 2003 approximately 80 nautical miles (150 km; 92 mi) east of Rowley Shoals, Broome, Australia.
Trincomalee holds the distinction of being the oldest British warship still afloat as HMS Victory, although 52 years her senior, is in dry dock.
The last US Navy ship lost at sea was USS Guardian. On 17 January 2013, Guardian ran aground on Tubbataha Reef in the Phillipines. Unable to be recovered, the vessel was decommissioned and struck on 15 February 2013.
In 2020 the International Maritime Organization (IMO) database listed 438 ships worldwide, with 5,767 crew members, abandoned since 2004; not all cases are referred to the IMO, so the actual number is larger, but unknown.
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— People have been diving to the Titanic's wreck for 35 years. No one has found human remains, according to the company that owns the salvage rights.
On today's date in 1912, the body of James McGrady, a saloon steward aboard the RMS Titanic, was interred in Halifax, N.S., where he's buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery. Recovered in the preceding weeks, McGrady's body was the last body recovered from the tragic sinking that took place about two months prior.
“every year, on average, more than two dozen large ships sink, or otherwise go missing, taking their crews along with them.” In a prescient comment, she says, “imagine the headlines if even a single 747 slipped off the map with all its passengers and was never heard from again”.
Just like we check under our beds for monsters, sharks check for dolphins before nodding off. That's right, the toughest kids on the undersea block swim in fear of dolphins.
Yes, sharks can detect blood in water in minute quantities. However, some studies have shown that they are only really attracted to blood / body oils from fish and marine mammals - their natural prey. Experiments have shown that sharks respond most strongly to odours produced by injured or distressed prey.
But don't abstain from peeing in the ocean because you think it attracts sharks. That's simply not true. We understand where the myth comes from. Sharks are legendary for their superior sense of smell.
Easily the biggest unclaimed treasure haul currently is that of the Portuguese ship, the Flor de Mar. This ship was sailing around the ancient island of Sumatra in 1511 before being caught in a violent storm. It eventually sank and took its huge bounty to the bottom of the sea with it.
Around 20 million tonnes of gold can be found there! According to estimates by the US National Oceanic Service, the gold from the depths of the oceans is so diluted that there is only one gram of this precious yellow metal for every 100 million metric tons of water.
Discovered in 2015, the 62-gun, three-masted Spanish galleon, nicknamed the "holy grail of shipwrecks," sank on June 8, 1708, during a battle with British ships in the War of Spanish Succession. Along with 600 people on board, the ship also carried a treasure of gold, silver and emeralds.
The largest monetary treasure haul found was on the wreck code named Black Swan, discovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration in 2007 off of Gibraltar. The salvage team reportedly found 17 tons of coins valued at $500 million; an amount that is both staggering and said to be “unprecedented” in the treasure hunting world.