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OME busy with deep-ocean gold and copper deposits

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:12:00 GMT

  From Welt Online Odyssey Marine Exploration has acquired a minority interest in SMM Project LLC, a company funded by a group of investors to bring together the exclusive licenses and skills of world renowned deep-ocean geologist Dr. Timothy McConachy of Bluewater Metals, the deep-ocean survey and exploration expertise of Odyssey, and the offshore coring and mining expertise of Robert Goodden. SMM Project LLC recently purchased a majority interest in Bluewater Metals Pty Ltd, an Australian...

250,000 Pieces of Blackbeard from Shipwreck

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:21:00 GMT

From Island Gazette Since the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources (NCDCR) began excavating the shipwreck believed to the Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s flagship, more than 250,000 objects have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, near Beaufort.  All recovered artifacts go through the conservation lab located at East Carolina University in Greenville. On Friday some of the latest artifacts readied for exhibit, and cannons and other works in progress, were reviewed for...

Australia announces $439,928 funding for Historic Shipwreck protection

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:43:00 GMT

  From Sail the World.com Federal Heritage Minister Peter Garrett today announced funding of $439,928 for projects that will protect the nation's underwater cultural heritage. A total of 25 projects across Australia will receive funding under the Historic Shipwrecks Program. 'The Historic Shipwrecks Program provides important financial assistance to state and territory agencies who manage, protect and raise awareness of historic shipwrecks on behalf of the Commonwealth,' Mr Garrett said....

Crews search for Civil War history

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:43:00 GMT

By Nick Cenegy - The Daily News For years, the scoured remains of a Civil War naval tragedy slowly rusted beneath the spinning propellers of gargantuan tankers and sky-scraping container ships. The scuttled USS Westfield, a Union gunship, and the last vestiges of its 14 doomed crew lay obscured in sea floor sediment near the confluence of the Texas City and Houston ship channels. On Wednesday, however, divers and salvage crews visited the all-but-forgotten site to begin recovering what is...

Absecon Lighthouse in A.C. unveils new collection of Titanic memorabilia

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:12:00 GMT

  By Steven V. Cronin - Press of Atlantic City The Absecon Lighthouse was constructed to prevent shipwrecks. But stop by the lighthouse Thursday evening and the focus will be on what is probably the most famous shipwreck ever.Thursday is when the lighthouse operators unveil their newly acquired memorabilia and exhibit material related to the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic.The exhibit includes small pieces of debris from the ship, which sank on April 15, 1912, after striking an iceberg....

What would Shackleton's whisky taste like ?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:00 GMT

  From BBC News After a century buried in the Antarctic ice, a rare batch of whiskey which belonged to the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton is to be recovered. So what might it taste like ? It's been on the rocks for the last 100 years, buried under two feet of ice at the South Pole. Now the two cases of "Rare Old" brand Mackinlay and Co whisky are to be retrieved. A team of New Zealand explorers heading out in January have been asked by Whyte & Mackay, the company that now owns...

Citrus, Marion county divers to help find old shipwrecks

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:10:00 GMT

From Citrus County Local News The Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN), Hernando Past and Southeastern Archaeological Services invite the public to Bayport Park from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday to watch archaeologists, FPAN staff and volunteer divers record possible shipwrecks located during recent remote sensing surveys. Bayport was the site of two brief engagements between Confederate land troops and Union blockading vessels during which several blockade runners were "scuttled,” or...

Captain Kidd's treasures found !

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:14:00 GMT

  From the Springfield Republican (May 1849)It seems by by the following account, that all the gold in the world is not packed away in the placers of the Sacramento. The other day, Martin and Samuel Shaw, of Palmer, while on a hunting excursion, near the "Old Boston Road", on "Snake Hill", discovered a cave in the rocks. In the den they found a sealed bottle containing a letter, purporting to have been written by Captain Kidd, the notorious pirate, to some of his inferior officers, informing...

Nau portuguesa com tesouro valioso descoberta no Brasil

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:16:00 GMT

Jornal de noticias Uma equipa de mergulhadores encontrou perto da costa da cidade brasileira de Rio de Janeiro restos de uma nau portuguesa do século XVIII que naufragou com uma carga avaliada em cerca de 670 milhões de euros, informou a imprensa local.Os pesquisadores encontraram restos de madeiras que podem ter pertencido ao "Rainha dos Anjos", um barco que se afundou a 17 de Julho de 1722 frente à baía da Guanabara, na costa do Rio de Janeiro, escreve o jornal O Globo.O...

Diving for answers - Fisherman helps uncover lost artefacts

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:19:00 GMT

  By Anthea McGibbon - The Gleaner While many Jamaicans fear the sea, some can't imagine their lives without it. Residents of Port Royal are among those whose lives are linked to the sea in more ways than one.Emmanuel Blake, a Port Royal resident and fisherman for more than 50 years, makes his living from the sea and has helped uncover some of its hidden secrets.Blake is one of the divers who years ago joined an expedition to retrieve items from the bottom of the sea that were buried there...

South Pole explorers to drill for Sir Ernest Shackleton's whiskey

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:08:00 GMT

      By Simon Johnson -Telegraph Explorers are planning to recover a rare batch of whiskey lost during explorer's ill-fated voyage to the South Pole a century ago.   Two crates of the now extinct “Rare Old” brand of McKinlay and Co whiskey have been buried in the Antarctic ice since Shackleton was forced to abandon his polar mission in 1909. But Whyte & Mackay, the whiskey giant that owns McKinlay and Co, has asked a team of New Zealand explorers...

A fortune lies waiting

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:50:00 GMT

  By Prega Govender - Times Live A treasure trove has been lying untouched 7m underwater along the Cape coastline for the past nine years. Priceless artefacts, including Chinese and Japanese porcelain, textiles and earthenware from the wrecks of two ships that sank more than three centuries ago, are scattered on the ocean floor about 500m south of the entrance to the Milnerton lagoon. Now, three treasure hunters - Graham Raynor, Michael Barchard and Christopher Byrnes - in their early...

CSS Appomattox, steamer torched in 1862

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:55:00 GMT

From Carolina Neswire The CSS Appomattox went down in flames in 1862 as her Confederate crew set her ablaze while fleeing Union forces. A team of volunteer divers has located the Civil War shipwreck and its identity has been confirmed by the Underwater Archaeology Branch, N.C. Office of Archives and History in the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. A silver-plated spoon inscribed with “J Skerritt” discovered by the divers was critical to establishing the identity...

Discoverer of Titanic to speak at Bloom U

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:22:00 GMT

  By Melissa Farenish - The Daily Item Oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard never grew up. The 67-year-old, best known for his discovery of the R.M.S. Titanic shipwreck in 1985, has declared himself to be “still a kid.” In a recent telephone interview, an enthusiastic Ballard described his 50-year career exploring the sea. “I’m most known for the Titanic and the Bismarck shipwrecks but that’s a small part of my career,” Ballard said. Ballard, now a professor...

Rum Runners and Torpedo Bombers At Channel Islands National Park

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:33:00 GMT

  By Kurt Repanshek - National Parks Traveler Who would have figured that Channel Islands National Park has ties to rum runners ? Or that a World War II torpedo bomber lies beneath the waves at the park that is set off the California coast?In December if you're in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, California, you'll be able to learn more about these and other historic shipwrecks and submerged aircraft that rest on the seabed around the Channel Islands during a lecture series titled "From Shore...

Auction house removes USS Arizona artifacts that had been up for bid

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:06:00 GMT

  By Christie Wilson - Honolulu Advertiser A partial silver-plated serving set salvaged from the USS Arizona just months after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor is being withdrawn from auction, according to the Ohio auction house that was planning the sell the artifacts. A spokeswoman for Cowan's Auctions Inc. said today the company "has no intention of selling the silver" at its Dec. 9 auction and is waiting for official notification from the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps...

Treasure hunter denies search off Dominican coast is halted

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:49:00 GMT

From Dominican Today The famed treasure salvage expert Burt Webber Jr refutes reports that his current project within Dominican territorial waters has encountered friction with the Government in his ongoing operation in the Silver Banks protected area, as Dominican Today published recently.The treasure hunter also specifies that his current venture seeks to recover artifacts on the sunken Spanish galleon "Solo Dios Gloria" and not the French "Scipion" as the article states.Webber, who contacted...

Divers warned to treat to war grave with respect

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:38:00 GMT

  From Kentnews.co.ukDivers are being warned to treat a wrecked ship where 75 crewmen died with utmost respect, especially as it is an official war grave.What’s left of HMS Ghurka lays on the sea bed off Dungeness. It sank on February 8, 1917, after hitting a mine laid by a German U-boat. But it has been subjected to repeated dives, with items being taken and sold to secondhand stores and souvenir shops as nick-nacks.One magazine has even gone so far as listing it at number 76 in its...

Caesar rises: several millennia's artefacts from the bed of the Rhone

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:57:00 GMT

  By Eloi Rouyer - AFP In a dark space in a new exhibition at Arles museum in southern France, underwater sounds play over looped video footage of scientists on underwater digs along the Rhone riverbed.An intrepid team of archaeologists have been diving for 20 years, struggling with poor visibility, strong currents and flipper-nibbling bullhead catfish to bring up the 500 or so objects now being displayed.In 2007, just when these Indiana Joneses of the water were ready to hang up their...

UK vessel found six decades later

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:22:00 GMT

From AFP Search teams said on Monday that they had found the wreck of the British destroyer HMS Volage, whose sinking in 1946 off Albania prompted a diplomatic row and is seen as an early episode of the Cold War.The wreckage of the vessel was found in the Ionian Sea by a team from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, the Albanian Archaeology Institute and Albanian defense ministry, project spokesperson Auron Tare said.The Volage sank on October 22, 1946, when it hit a mine near the Albanian port...

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