The Koning William de Tweede was an 800-ton ship that was sailing near Robe, South Australia when it sank in June 1857.

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...

Australian maritime archaeologists are helping to decontaminate rusty war shipwrecks in the Pacific, preventing billions of ...

Hoosier lawmakers have unanimously authorized a new type of state preserve to permanently protect the 14 historic shipwrecks and one crashed airplane located in Indiana's portion of Lake Michigan.

Teeming with marine life and being popular spots for diving, Queensland is home to more than 1,400 wrecks. They are ...

The first of Cathay’s weekly Boeing 747-800 freighter flights landed in what was then known as Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport ...

Need to get out of Brisbane for a day? We've got you! A day trip over to stunning Moreton Island is the perfect escape. Spend a sundrenched day snorkeling the Tangalooma Shipwrecks, kayaking, eating ...

Archaeologists have made a discovery in the middle of Barcelona, one of Spain's most renowned city. A 500-year-old ship was uncovered five metres below sea level, just a few metres away from ...

There are actually secret intermediate layers that keep the upper and bottom from mixing, but for our purposes (shipwrecks) there are two: oxygen-rich upper, anoxic bottom. That bottom layer is ...

More than a century after hospital ship TSS Maheno was wrecked on the shores of K'gari (Fraser Island), families of its crew ...

NOAA also found marine life in the shipwreck, including colorful red jellyfish that may be members of a new species. Tubeworms and anemones were also spotted. The USS Yorktown wreck is protected ...