New research has highlighted how the estimated 50,000 wrecks around the UK coastline are protecting the seabed, and the species inhabiting it, in areas still open to bottom-towed fishing. An estimated ...

Shipwrecks are a surprising haven for marine life in areas where there is heavy fishing, scientists have discovered. To reach these findings, a group of British scientists studied five shipwrecks off ...

Scattered across the world, countless shipwrecks lie on the ocean floor. These vessels act as time capsules, relics frozen in time with stories written in wood and metal, chronicling chapters of human ...

When a ship sinks, it is often in tragic circumstances. Beneath the waves, however, a different story unfolds: shipwrecks ...

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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.

With an underwater drone named Rhody, archaeologists are mapping some of the dozens of sunken vessels in Lake Ontario. A new unidentified shipwreck discovered in the Lake Ontario National Marine ...

If you ever wanted to scuba dive to a Lake Michigan shipwreck, Wisconsin's national marine sanctuary has the hook up − quite literally. The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary has ...