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Wrecks

The lost city found underwater in the Mediterranean Sea is set to be revealed next week in a special television documentary.

A monumental stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Israel has archaeologists puzzled.

The "U-486" was torpedoed and broken in two by a British submarine in April 1945 shortly after leaving the western Norwegian town of Bergen. There was no survivors.

Experts believe it could be the remains of a Dutch vessel that sank more than 300 years ago.

Two wrecks dating from the 17th century have been located just off Kastellholmen, a small island in the centre of Stockholm, expressen.se reports

X-Ray Mag #54 - May 2013
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Make way for the shoreline— the ship is taking on water and fast! Perhaps these were not the exact words used to describe the situation, but the sinking of the MS Mikhail Lermontov has now become one of the largest diveable wrecks in New Zealand...

X-Ray Mag #50 - Sep 2012

It’s an unsettled kind of morning on Chedabucto Bay of Canada’s east coast. The sun is shining—it’s really quite pleasant—but there’s a brisk wind blowing from the southwest. What that translates into here in the waters between Cape Breton Island...

X-Ray Mag #47 - Mar 2012
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Just knowing that Vikings started a settlement here a thousand years ago and that the first fishermen from Europe began arriving in the 1500’s adds to a sense of history that cloaks the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It’s a sense...

X-Ray Mag #46 - Jan 2012
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Lying undisturbed in the deep water just off the fringing reef from the remote village of Boga Boga on the tip of Cape Vogel, is what many consider to be the best aircraft wreck in Papua New Guinea and possibly the world.

X-Ray Mag #40 - Jan 2011
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Not all sunken ships are the same. There are shallow wrecks, deep wrecks, very old barely discernable wrecks, wrecks sunk in war, wrecks sunk to make artificial reefs, even wrecks placed on the sea bed for Hollywood movies. While each ship has a...

X-Ray Mag #13 - Oct 2006
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Nowadays, the name Yamashiro could have different meanings depending on where you come from. If you live in Los Angeles, a huge pagoda near Hollywood is the oldest structure in California and hosts a famous restaurant named Yamashiro or “Mountain...

X-Ray Mag #19 - Oct 2007
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As the Red Sea narrows at its northern extreme, a long thin arm of water stretches north towards the Mediterranean. It is the Gulf of Suez. Squeezed between the Sinai Peninsula and the Egyptian mainland, the entrance to the Gulf is marked by a...

X-Ray Mag #26 - Oct 2008

What does a fish exporter from Norway, a Chief Information Officer and diving instructor living in the Netherlands, a renowned lawyer based in Cyprus, a Project Manager working in Sweden, and an expat French Technical Diving Instructor have in...

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Historic wrecks in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary threatened by invasive mussels zebra and quagga mussels.

Calcified objects hint at new discoveries.

Five new marine parks set to open by summer

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Swedish Navy locates Soviet submarine S-6 which went missing in action in 1941 in the Baltic, southeast of Öland.

The plane crashed during aircraft-carrier training near Waukegan on Dec. 28, 1944.

Divers have located a sunken cargo ship loaded with 700 tons of gold ore shipwrecked off Russia's Far East coast, the Russian transport ministry said on...

A new record was set when two ships were scuttled as artificial reefs in one long day. X-Ray Mag's Barb Roy is on location.

The excavation of the Mazotos shipwreck sheds light on very important issues such as seafaring in Cyprus in antiquity, commerce between the Aegean and...

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A Spanish galleon dating back to the 18th century has been discovered by Italian authorities off the coast of Messina, in the southern region of Sicily. The...

Scuba-diving looters have been removing items from the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia that ran aground off Tuscany Jan. 13, Italian authorities...

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Maritime archaeologists speculate that a mystery shipwreck that grounded on Florida's reefs in April 1911 could be the British steamship Hannah M. Bell.

Divers and amateur historians stumbled upon an amazingly intact Messerschmitt 323 200ft underwater off Sardinian coast while they were searching for another...

The Canadian government launches its largest search yet for the lost ships of Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 quest for the Northwest Passage.

An underwater video from a Pacific island has uncovered a field of man-made debris that investigators believe could hold the key to aviator Amelia Earhart's...

The SS Terra Nova, the ship that took Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team on their ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic a century ago, has been found...

A mid1800’s paddle-wheeler have been located in the deep depths of Seneca Lake south of Geneva, New York.

A marine archaeologist is hoping to find and recover the wreck of Capt. James Cook's famous ship the Endeavour in Newport Harbor.

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Divers have recovered a number of 16th century silver coins from the wreckage of the legendary Swedish warship Mars, which was discovered last year off the...

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The ship, which was found in the sea off the town on Varazze in the province of Liguria, is thought to be a Roman-era commercial vessel.

China secretly salvaged a British submarine sunk in an accident in 1931. Beijing has admitted that it raised and scrapped the Poseidon in 1972

Archaeologists in China say they have discovered 12 new underwater cultural relics sites near the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea.

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The wreck of the Port-au-Prince, a historic pirate ship containing a legendary bounty of sunken treasure is thought to have been discovered by divers in...

The U-550 is one of several World War II-era German U-boats that have been discovered off the U.S. coast, but it's the only one that sank in that area.

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The technology is said to depict HMS Royal Oak in its current state on the seabed in Scapa Flow, Orkney, including details of the areas where four torpedoes...

Odyssey Marine Exploration has begun recovery of a silver cargo from from the SS Gairsoppa which lies three miles deep in the North Atlantic.

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The former US Coast Guard cutter sink in only minutes once her explosives detonated sending her on her final voyage to the sea floor off the Coast of Fort...

In the the past week German military divers have been recovering a rare World War II aircraft in the Baltic

Plans to make the USS Kawishiwi the next artificial reef in California ended this month when the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) withdrew the ship from...

Hungarian frogmen to map the wreck of SMS Franz Joseph I, a WW1 battle cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy which rest in the Adriatic sea

Two Roman-era shipwrecks have been found in deep water off a western Greek island, challenging the conventional theory that ancient shipmasters stuck to...

A team of divers from the Buchan Divers group found the wreck of the German U-boat scuttled by its crew off the Scottish coast after a 12 year search

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Andreas Franke has made it again, the Second Edition of his Vanderberg Series is now hung on the wreck, in May 2012. This unique Underwater Exhibit on Key...

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