The SS Dorothy Wintermotes engine skylight. Ocean Exploration Trust - NOAA Media releases news about the Dorothy Wintermote shipwreck Jim, Dr. Robert Ballard and others have been surveying aboard Nautilus off the California [...]
Jim talks with the Explorers Institute while in San Francisco. Watch Jim's "fireside chat" with the Explorers Institute in San Francisco. (Note: there are intermittent audio difficulties) Check out more Explorers Institute videos [...]
Built in 1920, the Coast Trader is pictured in San Francisco in 1937; it became the second merchant ship to be sunk off the continental coast when a Japanese submarine, I-26, torpedoed it between [...]
The officers and crew of USS Conestoga, in San Diego, California in 1921. Lost for 95 years, the tug was discovered in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary off San Francisco. Credit: Naval Historical [...]
Features on an historic photo of USS Independence CVL 22 are captured in a three-dimensional (3D) low-resolution sonar image of the shipwreck in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The Coda Octopus Echoscope 3D sonar, [...]
This detail of "Abandonment of the Whalers In The Arctic Ocean September 1871" depicts several of the ships involved in the near-disaster. Wainwright Inlet is in the background. (Ted and Ellie Congdon/Huntington Library) [...]
Landsat-8 image taken in 2013 of shipwreck sites off the coast of Belgium. Credit: HIGHROC Discovering otherwise undetected shipwrecks scattered throughout the oceans could shed light on previously lost history By Charles Q. Choi [...]
Sonar reveals the mostly intact remains of H.M.S. Erebus, one of two vessels from Sir John Franklin’s expedition that became icebound in 1846. The second ship, H.M.S. Terror, has yet to be found. PHOTOGRAPH BY [...]
