“Too Much Sea for Their Decks” by Michael Schumacher chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighters, early steel-hulled steamers, passenger vessels, whalebacks and bulk carriers lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior.
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For the first time, international scientists from eight member states of UNESCO have modeled shipwrecks and improved local mapping in order to protect important underwater cultural heritage in Italy and Tunisia.
Read moreOceanGate Expeditions will conduct the first manned submersible expedition to the wreck of the RMS Titanic since 2005. The survey expedition team will use the latest subsea imaging technology and a newly built manned submersible to assess the condition of the shipwreck and document artifacts in the debris field. The exploration team will conduct annual surveys of the wreck in
Read moreNOAA is proposing to designate two new marine sanctuaries: a 1,075-sq. mi. area of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin and a 52-sq. mi. stretch of the tidal Potomac River in Maryland. The Wisconsin site contains shipwrecks from the 19th and early-20th centuries. The Maryland site contains wrecks from World War I, as well as sites related to Native American cultures and
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