The 1985 discovery of the RMS Titanic changed the field of maritime archaeology forever, proving that even deeply sunken ...

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, ...

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

On Thursday afternoon, the famous Black Pearl from the live-action movie starring Johnny Depp became an artificial reef in ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior and it won’t be long before there’s some reminder of what happened “when the gales of November came early.” This year marks ...

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 ...