Tagged: shipwreck

A TREASURE hunter has made an “astonishing” discovery in the depths of the Bermuda Triangle that he believes is evidence of aliens landing on Earth. Darrell Miklos uses secret maps created by his ex-NASA astronaut pal Gordon Cooper to unearth shipwrecks in the briny deep....

A mysterious shipwreck has emerged from the sands of a beach in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Tour guide Ray Stallings posted photos of the wreck on Facebook on Dec. 30. “Shipwreck on beautiful Ocracoke Island,” he explained, noting some debate about the wreck’s identity. Some...

Diamond miners recently discovered a ship that went down 500 years ago after draining a man-made lagoon on Namibia’s coast. While shipwrecks are often found along Africa’s Skeleton Coast, this one just so happened to be loaded with $13,000,000 worth of gold coins. It also...

A shipwreck linked to a century-old mutiny and murder mystery is disappearing into the sands of a North Carolina beach. Local resident Mimi Farrell posted images of the ghostly wreck, which had emerged from the sand at Surf City, on Facebook on Jan. 28. Then...

Maritime archaeologists from Mexico and Spain are set to ramp up their efforts to find a treasure-laden Spanish galleon that sank in the 17th century. The Nuestra Senora de Juncal (Our Lady of Juncal) sank in 1631 in the waters of what was then New...

Stunning artifacts have been recovered from the wreck of HMS Erebus, one of two 19th-century Royal Navy ships involved in a doomed expedition to locate the Northwest Passage. Officials in Canada unveiled the items, which include epaulets from a lieutenant’s uniform, ceramic dishes, a hairbrush,...

A mysterious 18th-century shipwreck off the coast of Mexico is revealing its secrets. The ship has been dubbed the “Manuel Polanco” after the fisherman and diver who first located it on the treacherous Chinchorro Bank off the Yucatan Peninsula. In the 1990s, Polanco led Peter...

A mysterious 19th-century shipwreck has reappeared on a U.K. beach following a series of storms. Photojournalist Greg Martin posted images of the wreck, which is near the town of Penzance in Cornwall, on Facebook. “A 133-year-old shipwreck at Long Rock has exposed its timbers again...

TIRANA, Albania – Albania is promoting the archaeological finds in the waters off its southwest coast to raise public interest and to attract attention of decision-makers who can help preserve the discoveries. The Albanian National Coastline Agency opened an exhibition on Monday of 30 pictures...

The wrecks of two wooden boats, one of which may be more than 100 years old, have been uncovered on a beach in northern Florida. In a Facebook post, the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum explained that the wrecks were found at jetties in...