The 1985 discovery of the RMS Titanic changed the field of maritime archaeology forever, proving that even deeply sunken ...

Shipwrecks portray something greater than their physical self. Beyond the wooden and steel ruins lie the great tales of adventures that connect us to the struggles and bravery of an era long gone. The ...

One of the most famous polar shipwrecks has been filmed in detail on the sea floor for the first time. The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to reach the South ...

A life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald, the famous Great Lakes freighter that was shipwrecked 50 years ago, will be auctioned ...

A groundbreaking new study has reshaped our understanding of the sinking of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance in 1915. Using technical analysis and archival research, Jukka Tuhkuri determined that ...

In 1994, Ric Mixter spent nearly two hours on the bottom of Lake Superior. His dive revealed torn steel, spilled ore and clues to the freighter’s fate.

DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan has acquired a life ring that washed ashore 50 years ago from the Edmund Fitzgerald, a rare artifact that strangely became part of a settlement in a lawsuit that ...