NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.
Nearly 100 years ago dozens of ships were abandoned in a shallow bay in the Potomac River. Today plants and animals are ...
In 1929 the Western Marine & Salvage Company moved a fleet of 169 World War I–era steamships to Mallows Bay, a shallow inlet ...
Researchers discovered a 19th century “ghost ship” in Lake Michigan. The missing clue to the wreck’s location was hiding in ...
More than 130 years after a ship was lost at sea, its wreck was found at the bottom of Lake Michigan near Wisconsin by ...
A long-searched-for ship has been found in Lake Michigan, 139 years after it sank during a storm. A group of researchers in Wisconsin says it has found the wreckage of a long-lost ship that sank in ...
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Greek shipwreck yields bronze statues

Peeling back the layers of the ocean’s mysteries, the Antikythera shipwreck off the Greek coast continues to astonish us with its treasures. The latest find, a collection of bronze statues, not only ...
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 ...