Shipwrecks

The wreck of the ship used for Sir Ernest Shackleton's final Antarctic expedition has been located by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) off the coast of Labrador. The Quest, aboard which Sir Ernest died in 1922, sank in May 1962.

As any viewer of the Discovery Channel will know, the search for sunken treasure typically involves sifting through the sand, just hoping to find gold or silver. The SeaSearcher underwater drone, however, may soon point clients right to the booty.

The wreck of one of the most famous exploration ships in history has been located. Using a robotic submersible, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust has found Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, which was crushed in the Antarctic pack ice in 1915.

​For three years, an international team of scientists surveyed the floor of the Black Sea, off the coast of Bulgaria. Now, radiocarbon tests have confirmed that the remains of an ancient ship discovered last year date from 400BC, officially making it the world's oldest known intact shipwreck.

The sea has given up another its mysteries, as billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel recently discovered the resting place of the USS Indianapolis after its loss 72 years ago from a Japanese submarine attack.

New research has found that it might be possible to spot coastal shipwrecks by searching for plumes of sediment in imagery collected by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite.

The study of archaeology has long been carried out using tools from the physics lab. What is less well known is that archaeology has also made substantial contributions to physics. This is the story of old lead; why it is important to physics, and what ethical problems it presents to both sciences.

When was the last time you heard about a sea turtle getting stuck in a shipwreck? Never, that's when. That's why the ARROWS project has created U-CAT – a prototype robotic sunken-ship-exploring sea turtle.

DIFIS (Double Inverted Funnel for Intervention on Shipwrecks) uses a passive collection system to recover oil from wrecks.

The world's largest RMS Titanic museum has opened in Belfast in time for the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking

Two shipwrecks have been located in the deep Atlantic off Ireland, each potentially loaded with millions of ounces of silver.