The Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck discovery known to archeologists. The wreck has been dated to the second Proto-Helladic period, 2700–2200 BC.
RMS Titanic
The supposedly "unsinkable" ocean liner set sail on its maiden voyage on 10 April 1912 only to hit an iceberg just before midnight on 14 April and sank in less than three hours. Claiming 1,514 lives, it is often remembered as one of the most famous and tragic shipwrecks in history.
Off the coast of Bulgaria, more than a mile beneath the surface of the Black Sea, a team of maritime archaeologists, scientists and surveyors has discovered what could be the world's oldest intact shipwreck – a 75-foot-long Greek trading vessel carbon-dated to more than 2,400 years ago.
Trial Rocks
A British East Indiaman of approximately 500 tons, under the command of John Brooke wrecked on the Tryal Rocks off the north-west coast of Western Australia in 1622. It is Australia's oldest known shipwreck.
Earlier this year, ocean explorer Victor Vescovo went in search of the Roberts' final resting place in the Philippines - 22,621 feet below the surface. He and his team found 306 feet of mangled metal. It was the deepest shipwreck discovery in history.
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.
The wreck of the Titanic—which was discovered on September 1, 1985—is located at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, some 13,000 feet (4,000 metres) underwater. It is approximately 400 nautical miles (740 km) from Newfoundland, Canada.
Loch Ard (1878)
The iron clipper Loch Ard is significant as one of Victoria's and Australia's most tragic and famous shipwrecks.
The Pesse canoe is the world's oldest known ship, dating between 8040 and 7510 BC.
The hunt for San José
For centuries, the sunken horde of gold, silver, and emeralds passed into legend, the “holy grail of shipwrecks.” Lying in about 3,000 feet of water, it was inaccessible until submersible technology matured in the 20th century.
Flor de la Mar, or Flor do Mar, is one of the most renowned undiscovered shipwrecks anywhere on Earth, thought to be filled with vast diamonds, gold and untold riches.
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 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.
A Greek merchant ship discovered more than a mile under the surface of the Black Sea has been radiocarbon dated to 2,400 years ago, making it the world's oldest known intact shipwreck.
This is where one of the most creative moves in Navy history comes to life. The Sailors figured if the port side guns needed to go higher but couldn't, they could lower the starboard side of the ship. This is when the USS Texas D-Day flooding itself would come about.
Port Phillip Bay Wrecks - Port Phillip Bay, Victoria
There are over 900 registered shipwrecks in Victoria. The capital city of Melbourne sits on Port Phillip Bay, home to more than 50 of those wrecks. From WWI submarines, massive missile destroyers and sunken ships, its hands down the best place to dive near Melbourne.
Bone tools and ornaments have a long history in Australia. The country's oldest known bone artifact, found at Carpenter's Gap in Western Australia, dates to 46,000 years ago.
Central Australia's inland sea
During the Cretaceous period (144 to 65 million years ago) a great inland sea stretched over one quarter of the country, inhabited by large underwater creatures and brimming with sea life.
While we cannot know for sure how he spent his final moments, it is known that Captain Edward Smith perished in the North Atlantic along with 1517 others on April 15, 1912. His body was never recovered.
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.
"You can't 'Raise the Titanic,' " Ballard says, a reference to a critically panned 1980 movie based on that idea. Doing so "would destroy it." "When Ballard's team discovered Titanic, she was in very good shape, much better than ships in shallow water," Sims says.
The ship was loaded with an estimated $17 billion worth of gold, silver and jewels when it sank in 1708, and its wreck was only discovered in 2015. The navy used a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to examine the wreck; its precise location is being kept a secret to deter treasure hunters.
As early as 1872, the British chemist Edward Sonstadt discovered that there was an unknown treasure on the ocean floor, but even today mankind has failed to bring it to the surface. Around 20 million tonnes of gold can be found there!