An underwater robotics expert is exploring nearly 100 targets in Seattle's Lake Union, calling the area a "shipwreck city" full of hidden maritime history.

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Deep below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea off the French coast, the pincer of a remotely guided underwater robot delicately closes around a centuries-old jug lying near a 16th-century shipwreck.

A cargo ship lying at the bottom of the sea off the Belgian coast has been fitted with a new treasure chest: a stash of rare flat oysters. Molluscs have mostly disappeared from the North Sea due to ...

Spanning centuries, more than 100 historic shipwrecks have been uncovered on the seafloor of the Bay of Gibraltar by researchers with Project Herakles in Spain.

Dominic Bush, a PhD candidate and underwater archeologist from East Carolina University, looked at 4x5 negatives taken in 1943 during the WWII battle against the Japanese at Attu Island, which are ...

An intrepid sub-sea robot recently dove nearly 1.5 miles below the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of southern France. The ...

The world's oceans harbor a cultural heritage of sunken ships, remains of those lost in the transatlantic slave trade and Indigenous islanders' spiritual ties to the sea that must be protected, NGOs ...

The 1985 discovery of the RMS Titanic changed the field of maritime archaeology forever, proving that even deeply sunken ships could be found with the help of advanced technology in the form of ...

Over 100 historic shipwrecks have been uncovered at a strategic maritime gateway — and researchers warn they may be at risk of fading away. The vessels were found on the seafloor of the Bay of ...