Report: Soviet shipwreck from 1934 found
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Researchers have found and raised fragments believed to be from a Soviet steamship that sank more than 70 years ago off the Arctic region of Chukotka, a Russian news agency reported Thursday.
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"The treasure in this case is the wreck itself."  A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.The barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet of crystalline coastal waters off Catalina Island are believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the Scottish privateer in 1699, Indiana University researchers say.'When I first looked down and saw it, I couldn't believe everybody missed it for 300 years,' said Charles Beeker, a scuba-diving archaeologist who teaches at Indiana University. 'I've been on thousands of wrecks and this is one of the first where it's been untouched by looters.' Read more
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Emperor Nicholas and his family were executed in 1918. But with newly discovered remains, they're making headlines again in Russia
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A Bulgarian cargo ship with 11 seamen on board sank in rough weather in the Sea of Azov on the border between Russia and Ukraine on Thursday, the Bulgarian coastguard said.
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U.S. military officials on Monday gave Russia a videotape and other archival materials on the Soviet K-129 submarine, whose sinking in 1968 is one of the lingering mysteries of the Cold War.
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The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in the waning days of World War II results in the greatest maritime disaster in history. Compiled by Tony Long.
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A Cold War-era Soviet submarine that was being towed to Thailand sank off northwestern Denmark, Danish officials said Tuesday.
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A ship containing toxic power station waste has sunk after being moored in a Turkish harbour for four years. The Ulla had sat in the port of Iskenderun in south-eastern Turkey amid confusion over the ship&#39;s future.
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The remains of the last czar's hemophiliac son and heir to the Russian throne, missing since the royal family was gunned down nine decades ago by Bolsheviks in a basement room, may have been found, an archaeologist said Thursday.
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Traces of the explosive hexogen have been found in the wreckage of one of the two Russian passenger jets that crashed minutes apart on Tuesday, Russian security services have revealed.
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The Russian Orthodox church said Wednesday that Japanese researchers had confirmed its doubts about the authenticity of the remains of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II.
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A French navy ship found at least 18 bodies floating off the coast of Malta on Friday, French and Maltese authorities said.
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Investigators picked through the scattered wreckage today of two Russian passenger jets that crashed nearly simultaneously Tuesday night after leaving Moscow, and reported
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Undersea tourists and souvenir  hunters are hastening the decay of the Titanic, says U.S.  explorer Bob Ballard who discovered the world's most famous  shipwreck nearly 20 years ago.
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A Spanish court has ordered police to capture and search two vessels belonging to a Florida firm that recently announced it had found a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean laden with an estimated $500 million worth of Colonial-era treasure, news reports said Tuesday.
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Traces of explosives were found amid the wreckage of the second of two Russian airliners that crashed almost simultaneously last week, investigators said Saturday, giving
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An expedition of Russian researchers claims to have found evidence that an    alien spaceship had something to do with a huge explosion over Siberia in 1908.    Experts in asteroids and comets have long said the massive blast was caused    by a space rock.