The vessel slab was found Tuesday on Low Beach by a person exploring the area with a metal detector, the Inquirer and Mirror ...

A volunteer checking on local breeding pairs of hooded plovers after wild weather has stumbled across the rusted bones of a ...

The 1715 Spanish wreck off the coast of Florida contained a hoard of real de plata coins valued at over $1 million.

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

Gold and silver coins worth about $1 million are found in Florida waters from Spanish ships that sank in a 1715 hurricane ...

The site’s description places the wreck near 45 meters, or about 148 feet, and dates the material to the first century BCE. Uniform cargo tells a story about commerce, not ceremony. Merchants moved ...

More than 1,000 gold and silver coins from the legendary 1715 Treasure Fleet have been pulled from the Atlantic.

A groundbreaking new study has reshaped our understanding of the sinking of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance in 1915.

An Estonian ferry disaster that killed 852 people in 1994 was probably not caused by hull damage to the vessel that was first revealed in a documentary this year, experts concluded after a preliminary ...

New research out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa is reshaping what we know about ancient seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Published recently in ...

Hidden beneath the turquoise waters off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast,” a team of divers from a shipwreck ...

Nearly 100 years ago dozens of ships were abandoned in a shallow bay in the Potomac River. Today plants and animals are thriving on the skeletons of these vessels ...