Sediments of the deepest trench on Earth, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, shows surprisingly high microbial activity. An international research team led by Professor Ronnie Glud from the University of Southern Denmark involving Dr. Frank Wenzhöfer from the HGF-MPG Joint Research Group on Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology of the Max Planck Institute in Bremen [...]
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Seventy years after it was scuttled off Los Angeles, Calif., government archaeologists have found the wrecked remains of a rare Pacific Coast schooner that was employed in the lumber trade during the early 1900s. Today, Robert Schwemmer, maritime archaeologist for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, presented a scientific paper on the George E. Billings [...]
SeaRobotics Corporation has teamed with a private equity group led by Ocean Investments Capital to fund the expansion of the company’s core business, including the production of Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs), the commercialization of its Robotic Hull Cleaning systems, and the development of new product lines in the ocean sciences and survey markets. SeaRobotics is [...]
A team of federal and university scientists on a 10-day expedition in the Gulf of Mexico has discovered Lophelia coral growing deeper… Source: NOAA, August 13, 2012; Image: NOAA
It is believed that the wreck of the Port-au-Prince, a 200-year-old English pirate ship, has been discovered in Tonga. The ship wreck was discovered by a local diver off the coast of Foa Island, in the Ha’apai Island group, according to nzherald.co.nz. The vessel last sailed into the Pacific waters in search of whales in [...]
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A Kuala Lumpur-based archaeologist stated that he has discovered the remains of a sunken wooden Dutch merchant vessel. Along with his team, he found the remains about three nautical miles off Pulau Besar, AsiaOne News reports. Malacca Museum Authority’s general manager, Datuk Khamis Abas said the wooden vessel had been detected during an underwater survey [...]
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![Turkey: British Submarine Found Intact After 94 Years]()
A First World War British submarine that executed one of the most daring raids during the war was found 94 years after it was abandoned, The Telegraph reports. HMS E14 was located on the ocean bed in the Dardanelles after a search that began in January. This submarine sailed beneath a minefield and evaded [...]
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Two Roman shipwrecks were found in the deepwater off the coast of a western Greek island, according to Zeenews.com. The shipwrecks were discovered in the sea between Corfu and Italy during a survey that covered 200 square kilometers, at a depth of 1.2 – 1.4 kilometers where a Greek-Italian gas pipeline is to be sunk. [...]
![Researchers Found Wreck of Russian Battleship Offshore China]()
A Russian battleship that was sunk in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 has been found off the coast of China near the city of Lyushun (fo… (RIA Novosti) Source: RIA Novosti, November 09, 2011
A Royal Netherlands Navy submarine, HNLMS K XVI, which went down in 1941 with its 36-man crew, six of whom of Indonesian nationality, has been found. Following up a tip-off in October 2011 by a local fisherman who had spotted a wreck, an Australian-Singaporean team of amateur scuba divers discovered the Dutch World Warr II [...]
