A gold pocket watch given to the ship captain who rescued 700 survivors from the Titanic sold at auction for nearly $2 million, setting a record for memorabilia from the ship wreck.
An “elusive” tugboat that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 130 years ago has finally been found by maritime historians who set out on a three-day-mission to solve the mystery of where it went.
Italian prosecutors have put under investigation two more crew members of the Bayesian, the superyacht that sank off Sicily last week, killing seven people, their lawyer said on Friday.
Prosecutors in Italy are investigating the captain of a superyacht that sank during a storm off Sicily last week, killing seven people, on possible charges including manslaughter, his lawyer said Monday.
Prosecutors in Italy have opened an investigation into multiple manslaughter after a superyacht capsized off the coast of Sicily.
The Italian coast guard said Thursday the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch is among those recovered off the coast of Sicily from the wreckage of a superyacht.
British tech magnate Mike Lynch and five other people were missing after their luxury superyacht sank during a freak storm off Sicily early Monday.
A luxury superyacht sailboat carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off Sicily in bad weather early Monday.
A team of Polish divers has discovered the wreckage of an old sailing ship loaded “to the brim” with luxury goods.
Colombia is hoping to recover as quickly as possible what has been called the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks” from the Caribbean Sea.
A 142-year-old shipwreck was discovered ten miles off the shoreline of Algoma, Wisconsin.
Explorers announced they found a WWII ship that was sunk in 1942, resulting in Australia’s largest maritime wartime loss of 1,080 lives.
A group of four experienced a startling surprise when the ship they were sailing to French Polynesia hit a whale and began to sink.
Italian prosecutors have revealed that smugglers charged as much as 8,000 euros each for a voyage that led to the deaths of dozens of people.
A vessel carrying over 100 migrants shipwrecked off the coast off the southern Italian region of Calabria Sunday morning leaving at least 43 dead and scores missing.
Maritime archeologists discovered a famous Gold Rush-era shipwreck that was a part of one of the deadliest Maritime disasters in the Northwest region 147 years ago.
Valuable artifacts from a shipwreck linked to the California Gold Rush era were auctioned off in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday for the first time ever.
A nearly 300-foot-long ship, Barge 129, has been found at the bottom of Lake Superior over 100 years after it sank.
Authorities in Colombia who were monitoring the sunken San José galleon have made an exciting discovery, President Ivan Duque announced Monday.
Madagascar Police Minister Gen. Serge Gellé told reporters on Tuesday he swam for 12 consecutive hours in the Indian Ocean from Monday night through Tuesday morning until he reached a shore near Madagascar’s Mahambo town after he survived a helicopter crash that left him stranded in the sea, Sky News reported Thursday.
At least 20 African migrants drowned Thursday when a dinghy carrying about 45 people sank off the coast of Tunisia.
Three men uncovered a cache of 300-year-old silver coins Friday buried at a beach in Indian River County, Florida.
A steamer that vanished beneath the waters of Lake Superior more than a century ago has finally been found.
Archaeologists from the Black Sea Maritime Archaeological Project announced the discovery of a 2,400-year-old trading vessel on Tuesday.
A shipwrecked Spanish galleon at the bottom of the ocean off the Colombian coast contains billions of dollars worth of sunken treasure—but the treasure may not be salvaged for a long time thanks to a lawsuit against the Colombian government.
An underwater robot discovered the shipwreck of a Spanish ship more than 300 years old containing gold and treasure worth up to $17 billon, according to a report.
Shipwreck hunters have discovered the remains of a barge that sunk beneath the waters of Lake Erie in 1899.
In one of this year’s worst Mediterranean Sea disasters, more than 700 migrants were aboard a vessel that capsized off the coast of the Greek Island of Crete late Thursday, and despite rescue operations that managed to save 340 lives, hundreds are still missing.
In the latest tragedy in the Strait of Sicily an overloaded barge carrying more than 500 migrants capsized off the Libyan coast Wednesday, resulting in the drowning of at least seven of the passengers.
More than 400 drowned when a vessel crammed with migrants capsized early Monday morning during an attempt to make the crossing from Egypt to southern Italy across the perilous Strait of Sicily. The migrants were mostly Somalis, along with some
As migration attempts to cross the Aegean Sea into Europe continue unabated, the bodies of at least 21 migrants drowned in a shipwreck were found at dawn Tuesday on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Local news agencies have reported that a
A barge carrying 25-30 migrants capsized off the coast of Greece early Wednesday morning, resulting in the death of at least eleven of the passengers, including four children and one newborn infant. Fifteen of the passengers were saved by rescuers
During the night from Friday to Saturday a ship transporting migrants capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish coast, leaving at least 18 dead and 14 survivors. Turkish media reports note that the death toll is provisional and there
On Sunday yet another ship carrying migrants sank off the coast of the Greek island of Samos in the Aegean Sea, resulting in the death of eleven people, including two children and four babies, according to the Greek coast guard.
A boat laden with refugees sank Thursday morning thirty miles off the Libyan coast, just 15 miles from where another vessel had capsized Wednesday. In Wednesday’s incident, at least 25 drowned, while in the more recent shipwreck, all 381 passengers were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard.
Acts of “inhuman violence” are emerging from the investigation into the recent shipwreck in Libyan waters, such as that of a boy who was killed for “standing without permission” on board the boat. His body was then thrown into the sea.
Distress calls have been received from at least two more boats in the Mediterranean carrying migrants, with reports of 20 further fatalities, including children. The Italian coast guard is believed to be asking commercial vessels in the area to respond
In what is being reported as the greatest migrant sea disaster of all time, some 700 Africans are suspected dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized last night about 60 miles north of Libya in an attempt to
