Tag: Shipwreck

Titan submersible released by OceanGate on its website. (Image credit: OceanGate)

Here are the Vessels Working to Find the Titan Sub

6/23/2023 - By gcaptain.com. A massive search continues in the remote North Atlantic Wednesday for the missing Titan submersible with five people on board as the clock ticks for any remaining chance of survival. The 21-foot unregulated submersible operated by U.S.-based OceanGate Expeditions has been missing since Sunday after losing contact with… SEE MORE

Time running out for Titanic Sub as Search Focuses on Undersea Sounds

6/21/2023 - By Joseph Ax and Steve Gorman. Rescuers searching for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic focused on Wednesday on a remote patch of the North Atlantic where undersea noises were detected, although officials cautioned the sounds may not have originated from the vessel. With the submersible's air… SEE MORE

Tidal Power’s Fickle Future

Maritime History

5/19/2023 - By oceangrafixblog.wordpress.com Aided by remote “drone” divers and advances in sonar, more ancient shipwrecks are being discovered. Sometimes salvage operations recover whole vessels and their entire bounty. But until recently, scientists knew little about the actual passengers and crew. Now, a new method of DNA testing is making it possible… SEE MORE

Shipwreck

Survival at Sea: Are You Prepared?

Boating

5/4/2023 - By Oceangrafixblog A jumping humpback whale in front of a sailing boat. A shipwreck at sea can happen to anybody. In the United States, 658 people died as a result of boating accidents in 2021 and 2,641 people were injured. Many deaths were due to damage to the boat. The sailboat Raindancer is a… SEE MORE

Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0 , Remolcador_Rozi,_Ċirkewwa,_Malta,_Malta,_2021-08-24,_DD_19 via Wikimedia Commons

Frozen in Time: National Marine Sanctuary Researchers Discover Lost Shipwreck Ironton

3/7/2023 - By noaa.gov Researchers from NOAA, the state of Michigan, and Ocean Exploration Trust have discovered an intact shipwreck resting hundreds of feet below the surface of Lake Huron. Located within NOAA's Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the shipwreck has been identified as the sailing ship Ironton. Magnificently preserved by the… SEE MORE

Shipwreck on the Norwegian Coast By wikipedia.org

Archaeologists Believe a Piece of Flotsam That Washed Up on a New York Beach Could be Part of an 1821 Shipwreck

3/6/2023 - By Min Chen The SS Savannah was the first steam and sail hybrid vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Last October, a weathered hunk of flotsam washed up on a New York shoreline following Hurricane Ian. No plain marine debris, though, the wreckage, experts believe, could well have been part… SEE MORE

Shipwreck of the SS American Star on the shore of Fuerteventura via WikiCommons

The Hunt for an Elusive Florida Shipwreck That Killed 41 Enslaved People

3/5/2023 - By Karuna Eberl Searching for the slave ship Guerrero, the nonprofit Diving With a Purpose has also trained scores of young Black men and women to find and tell stories once lost to the waves. CARYSFORT REEF WAS DARK UNDER the new moon. Coral tentacles undulated with the changing tide,… SEE MORE

Shipwreck Off Patagonia is Likely Long Lost Whaler

9/6/2022 - By Eco Magazine. Scientists investigating the remains of an old wooden ship off the cold, windy coast of far southern Argentina say it almost certainly is the Dolphin, a globe-trotting whaling ship from Warren, R.I., lost in 1859. Archaeologists have spent years researching the ship's origin without making a definitive… SEE MORE

NOAA, Partners Discover Wreck of 207-year-old Whaling Ship

3/23/2022 - NOAA and partners today announced the discovery of the wreck of a 207-year-old whaling ship, called Industry, found on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The remains of the 64-foot long, two-masted wooden brig opens a window into a little known chapter of American history when descendants of African enslaved… SEE MORE

New Analysis Provides More Clues About Pilgrim-era Shipwreck

3/14/2022 - By Mark Pratt. In 1626, a ship foundered in stormy seas and wrecked on Cape Cod, where the passengers were aided by the local Indigenous population and the Pilgrims in nearby Plymouth. Now the most in-depth scientific analysis of timbers found more than 150 years ago has provided the best… SEE MORE

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