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Statnett, the Norwegian state-owned power grid operator, made the astounding discovery of the lost Karlsruhe cruiser around 488 meters (1,600 feet) below sea level off the Southern coast of Norway, some 13 nautical miles from the port of Kristians
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Using a 3D multibeam scanner, researchers from the Sea War Museum Jutland have discovered a century-old British submarine which sank off the northern coast of Denmark in 1918.
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The U-3523 was of the new and highly advanced type XXI U-boats that could have revolutionized the submarine war if enough boats had been completed in due time.
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This is the third year running that Ghost Fishing UK has visited this iconic dive site.
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Although May Isle is only 57 hectares, it has been a National Nature Reserve since 1956 and is internationally important for its seabird and seal colonies.
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“These wrecks have no ghost nets,” said Andi Peters, the man whose own website introduces him as “Der Nordseetaucher” (“The North Sea Diver”).
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The Danish diving expedition firm JD-Contractor, led by the Sea War Museum Jutland founder Gert Normann Andersen, located the wreck of the British cruiser HMS Warrior – just weeks after they located the wreckage of a German submarine.
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Diving the shipwrecks of the Battle of Jutland had always been an ambition of mine.
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The 10,850-ton armoured cruiser HMS Hampshire departed Scapa Flow in Orkney on 5 June 1916 on a voyage around the north cape of Norway to the port of Archangel in northern Russia.
Read moreHMS Tarpon left Portsmouth on 5 April 1940 and ordered to Norway. On the 10th, Tarpon was ordered to take up a new position but was never heard from again.
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At the time of its sinking Rio de Janeiro was carrying a contingent of German soldiers meant for the invasion of Norway, which occurred on the following day, 9 April 1940. Of the 380 onboard, 50 were crew, the rest were soldiers.
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Two years before this expedition, I had booked a trip with a team from England to dive the wrecks of Jutland (in the North Sea, near the western coast of Denmark’s Jutland peninsula), but this trip was cancelled at the last moment because the expe
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The HMS Warrior II, once formerly named "Goizeko Izarra", was built in 1904 in Troon, Scotland, as a luxury steam yacht for a private owner. The ship was 284 feet (84 meters) long, an extraordinary size for this type of ship.
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According to new research, offshore wind farms may become seal hunting grounds. Although the long-term environmental impact remains in question.
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According to a new study by the Marine Conservation Society and the University of Exeter, last year saw record jellyfish numbers in British seas and is expected to be equaled this year, with billions of the creatures already congregating by mid-
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Glancing at a map of Europe, the North Sea appears to be quite an expanse of featureless open sea separating Scandinavia and the European mainland from the British Isles.
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