By Kevin Simauchi (Bloomberg) –Extreme heat this year has triggered wildfires, drought and melting glaciers. Less expectedly, it’s also revealed some weird and dark things about our past—shipwrecks, corpses, ghost villages, ornamental gardens and ancient…
https://gcaptain.com/extreme-heat-uncovers-lost-villages-ancient-ruins-and-shipwrecks/
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Wednesday the discovery of a 207-year-old whaling ship in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship, called Industry, was a 64-foot long, two-masted…
STOCKHOLM, Feb 15 (Reuters) – A Swedish appeal court ordered on Tuesday that a district court try again a case against two film makers accused of disturbing the ferry Estonia…
https://gcaptain.com/case-against-filmmakers-accused-of-disturbing-estonia-wreck-to-be-tried-again/
STOCKHOLM, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Rock on the seabed may have gouged previously unknown holes in the hull of the ferry Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994…
https://gcaptain.com/new-look-at-estonia-shipwreck-raises-questions-about-what-caused-the-sinking/
After decades of searching, researchers from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Coast Guard have located the underwater shipwreck of the former U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear. The wreck…
Newport, Rhode Island, has been chosen as the future homeport for a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel being built for the agency. Discoverer will be a state-of-the-art ship that operates off the coasts of the U.S. and its territories around the nation to study and explore the oceans.
“We have an extremely unique mission space,” Alan Leonardi, director of NOAA’s Office of Ocean...
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Lord Elgin’s vessel, wrecked off the coast of the Greek island of Kythera in 1802, is continuing to yield intriguing discoveries for underwater archaeologists who are continuing to yield amazing discoveries as countless of looted Greek antiquities are recovered, says an article published in neoskosmos.
Most Significant ShipwrecksGreece’s Ministry of Culture announced on Monday that archaeologists, sifting through the wreckage since 2009, had sought artifacts under the guidance of archaeologist...
https://mfame.guru/underwater-archaeologists-to-yield-amazing-discoveries/
Some of the worst storms in U.S. history have hit around Thanksgiving, disrupting transportation and claiming lives. The following are five of the most destructive and deadliest of those storms.
Infamous Portland storm (1898)
This massive storm killed 200 people from Nov. 26 to 28, just after Thanksgiving. It formed off Cape Cod, hitting the New England coast.
More than 24 inches of snowfall piled up in parts of Connecticut, and Boston received more than 12 inches. The storm lasted more than 30...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/5-of-the-worst-thanksgiving-storms-in-us-history
Ships are one of the sturdiest megastructures built by man, weighing anywhere between 10,000 to 600,000 deadweight tons. And they should be, considering the harsh conditions they encounter, the unpredictability of the environment they sail in, and the sheer magnitude of operations needed to manage a vessel of such large proportions.
Safety and adherence to laws are paramount, and all efforts are taken to keep the vessel all passengers on board safe. For this purpose, several maritime laws and...
https://www.marineinsight.com/careers-2/books-on-shipwreck-and-maritime-archaeology/