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 ship reportedly sank in a naval battle with an English fleet.

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 said.

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

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.

This underwater exhibition will be placed on the wreck of the Haven oiltanker which sank in 1991 in the Gulf of Genoa, Ital..

During the time period 1945– 2009 a total number of 165 marine alien species were recorded along Italian coasts according to a report. In many cases these were native in the tropical regions of the world.

It was one of those highly unlikely chains of unforeseable events that led us to Elba the pictoresque but somewhat mislaid lump of land in the Meditterean made famous by emperor Napoleon’s exile here: The fact that the treasureship Polluce was finally being excavated.

Like every grand tale of shipwreck and lost treasure, the story about the Polluce has it all. A paddlewheel steamboat shipwrecked in 1841, it is the centrepiece of a drama spanning more than one and a half centuries and has all the necessary ingredients: drama and tragedy, greed and crime, passion and politics. And it is still ongoing. Polluce is about to be excavated once more as this story goes to press.

A Second World War hero, decorated with a Gold Medal for Military Valour, the highest Italian military decoration, Luigi Ferraro (1914 – 2006) dedicated his entire civilian life (from 1945 until his death in 2006) to the development of underwater activities for which he is considered a pioneer.