The Underwater Photographer of the Year contest highlights compelling underwater images. The wrecks category features photos of wrecked warships and sunken planes. The winning wreck photo shows a ship ...

What if, instead of donning scuba gear or riding a deep-sea submersible into the depths, you could see real life shipwrecks on land? In the Ocean State, you can. Thousands of ships have been wrecked, ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch. In ...

The bow of a sunken ship poked out of the water of Shipyard Creek. At high tide on May 27, all that could be seen was a sliver of the oxidized vessel, backdropped by the S.C. Ports Authority's Hugh ...

The RMS Republic and RMS Titanic have two things in common. Both were vessels sailing under the White Star Line and sank after collisions. However, the Republic’s fate was sealed by another ship, not ...

Oct. 6 (UPI) --Sir Ernest Shackleton's polar ship, Endurance, was considered to be the strongest of its time but the vessel had significant structural weaknesses that caused its demise -- and an ...

In southern Costa Rica, local lore has told of two sunken pirate ships just off the coast in the shallow Caribbean waters. Well, there are sunken ships there, and they do date to the early 1700s. But ...