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The wreck of a legendary WWII US submarine has been found at the bottom of the South China Sea
Underwater drones and photogrammetry helped capture stunning images that confirmed the legendary US…
Mia Jankowicz
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Photos show the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on the bottom of Lake Superior 48 years after the 13-ton ship sank
Nearly five decades later, the Fitzgerald remains one of the most famous shipwrecks in American his…
Erin Snodgrass
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Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are now wrecking world cruisers' vacation plans
Several major cruise lines in have announced reroutings and entire cancellations as Houthi rebels c…
Erin Snodgrass
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US Navy warships have the tools to fend off exploding drones like those wrecking a Russian fleet, but it's a dangerous and evolving threat
Ukraine has used naval drones to batter Russia's Black Sea Fleet, but now the Houthis are trying to…
Jake Epstein
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Gold pocket watch owned by the richest man on the Titanic, who died when the ship sank, fetches record $1.5 million
The watch was owned by John Jacob Astor IV, a businessman who died when the Titanic sank in 1912.
Cameron Manley
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Take a look inside the Titanic Museum housed in a replica of the ship and owned by a man who visited the deep-sea wreck in 1987
Public fascination with the Titanic was renewed when a tourist submersible operated by OceanGate ca…
Talia Lakritz
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Cruise line companies have sold their massive ships for scrap overseas after the pandemic wrecked the industry. Here's a look inside ship-breaking yards.
Decommissioned cruise ships are being dismantled at Aliaga ship-breaking yard in the Aegean port ci…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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An Antarctic explorer's ship has been discovered 106 years after it sank. Here are 26 other famous shipwrecks around the world.
Navagio Beach in Greece is famous for its shipwreck.turtix/Shutterstock
Talia Lakritz
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British divers retrieved an 80-pound brass bell from the only American destroyer sunk in World War I more than 100 years after the ship was torpedoed
The USS Jacob Jones sunk off the coast of Britain in December 1917 after being torpedoed by a Germa…
Erin Snodgrass
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Where did the Titanic sink? The wreck location may not be where you think it is.
An OceansGate submersible named Titan was on an exploratory mission to the Titanic when it disappea…
Hannah Getahun
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A Russian air-defense system got wrecked after it fell off a bridge into the path of a moving train, report says
A Russian air-defense system crashed into a train after its driver lost control and it fell off a b…
Thibault Spirlet
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Titanic International Society head says it might be time to stop people visiting the wreck altogether
A Titanic research group's head said of the submersible implosion: "Just as Titanic taught the worl…
Sinéad Baker
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Rescuers discovered 2 shipwrecked children clinging to their dead mother, who had saved their lives by drinking her urine to breastfeed them
Mariely Chacón's kids, aged 2 and 6, were found after their boat capsized, casting them adrift at t…
Sophia Ankel
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New discoveries suggest Rhode Island shipwreck is Captain Cook's long-lost vessel after battle over ship's identity
An Australian maritime museum announced the discovery of the Endeavour in 2022, prompting a swift r…
Erin Snodgrass
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The skeleton of a legendary 18th-century pirate captain dubbed the 'Robin Hood of the Sea' could have been discovered off the coast of Massachusetts
It's thought one of the skeletons is Captain 'Black Sam' Bellamy, the captain of the Whydah, the on…
Rachel Hosie
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Magellan, the company that mapped the Titanic wreck, is trying to scramble its deep-sea scanning equipment to help locate the lost sub
The sea exploration firm, which helped produce 3D scans of the wreck, is trying to help the rescue …
Sindhu Sundar
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The history of the San José galleon, the 300-year-old sunken ship behind a $10 billion legal battle, known as the 'Holy Grail of Shipwrecks'
The San José galleon is a sunken Spanish warship at the center of a $10 billion legal battle over w…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Robert Ballard, who discovered Titanic wreck, said authorities 'immediately knew' where to look when they heard the Titan's implosion, but it took days for an ROV to get there
On Thursday, the Coast Guard announced that the missing Titanic submersible likely imploded and tha…
Rebecca Cohen
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Russia sank ships to protect a key bridge from Ukraine's naval drones. It might not be enough to keep the small exploding vessels from hitting their targets.
Russia is sinking its ships to protect Kerch Bridge from drone boats, but one expert told Insider t…
Chris Panella
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A Chinese invasion of Taiwan is a real and dangerous possibility that could wreck armies and ruin the global economy worse than the 1929 stock market crash
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan could bring about a global recession and significant military losses f…