Extensive fungal decay persists on the USS Cairo, and further research is needed to understand these organisms. Better ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch. In ...

Here’s what you'll learn when you read this story: Greece’s Ministry of Culture approved a tricky diving mission that allowed the recovery of select artifacts from the sunken Britannic, the sister ...

What if, instead of donning scuba gear or riding a deep-sea submersible into the depths, you could see real life shipwrecks on land? In the Ocean State, you can. Thousands of ships have been wrecked, ...

University of Minnesota researchers studied the microbial degradation of the USS Cairo, one of the first ironclad and steam-powered gunboats used in the United States Civil War. Studies of microbial ...

The number of Koreans aboard a Japanese ship that sank in 1945, killing up to over 3,000 people, will likely be revealed by ...

It seems fighter planes and bombers weren't the only vehicles aboard a famous U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War II. A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the ...

In southern Costa Rica, local lore has told of two sunken pirate ships just off the coast in the shallow Caribbean waters. Well, there are sunken ships there, and they do date to the early 1700s. But ...

Here’s what you'll learn when you read this story: The location of the wreck—about 45 miles southeast of Athens in the Aegean Sea—in deep and tumultuous waters have made the site’s exploration tricky, ...