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) [...]
Survivors after a German torpedo hit and sank the Chenango in 1942 off the coast of North Carolina. (National Archives) Agency seeks sanctuary for WWII shipwrecks off Cape Hatteras Somewhere off North Carolina’s [...]
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 [...]
