Marine archaeologists have discovered the first confirmed pirate-era shipwrecks in Nassau Harbour, Bahamas, uncovering ...

Wisconsin researchers recently discovered a 145-year-old shipwreck in a murky river – and it was a complete surprise. The Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association (WUAA), the organization that led ...

Underwater expeditions near Nassau found three new wrecks that could shed light on what life was like during the pirate heyday. Underwater archaeologist Sean Kingsley records a grinding stone for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists surveying a Wisconsin river believe they unexpectedly stumbled upon a ship that sank in 1880. Researchers with the ...

Bobby Moore investigates why certain valuable shipwrecks have remained lost despite extensive recovery efforts.

In the last several months, two more-than-a-century-old shipwrecks were discovered in the Great Lakes - the SS James Carruthers in Lake Huron, one of the largest missing ships in the region, and the ...

Winter storms on the Great Lakes can temporarily lower water levels, revealing shipwrecks and other submerged features. Strong, sustained winds during colder months push water from one end of a lake ...

A new push to crack down on heritage crime at sea has been hailed as a "truly pioneering" by police. Historic England, working with the University of Plymouth, produced new national guidance that aims ...

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From the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald to the Carl D. Bradley, discover the chilling similarities that doomed the biggest ships on the Great Lakes.