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Lebanese environmentalists have sunk 10 old tanks and armored vehicles to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea to attract divers and create new habitats for marine life.
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More skirmish than battlefleet action, the German High Seas Fleet, having unintentionally encountered the entire British Grand Fleet, slipped into the mists of the North Sea and escaped.
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Discovered by an international team comprising British, Canadian and South Korean experts, the Russian Imperial Navy cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi was found about a mile off the South Korean island of Ulleungdo.
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In a groundbreaking partnership between the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, the Australian Wine Research Institute and James Squire Brewery, the world’s oldest beer has been resurrected.
,Now, 20 years later, brewers are hoping to bring some of this old beer back to life using some of the yeast found on the ship.
,,I thought we might be able to culture yeast and recreate a beer that hasn’t been on the planet for 220 years
The team of archaeologists is excited because it's a rare find, and the ship has already provided several surprises as regards to unusual design features. The vessel is estimated to have been about 16m long and seven meters wide.
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The ARSBC, which has sunk more ships and aircraft than any other non-profit group in the world to create marine habitat, has worked and consulted with Catalyst Paper for the sinking of the first vessel.
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Despite being already considered obsolescent at the outbreak of the conflict in 1939 the biplane was nonetheless in frontline service throughout the Second World War and achieved some spectacular successes such as sinking one battleship and damag
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The Caribbean nation of Grenada has added another vessel to its burgeoning collection of diveable wrecks. At 6.20 on 21 March, the MV Anina sank to her final resting place on a sandy bottom near to the famous Purple Rain reef.
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The Wreck Viewer is an interactive map which has been developed to facilitate easy access to the Wreck Inventory of Ireland Database compiled by the Department’s National Monuments Service (NMS).
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The Steamship Pulaski disaster was the term given to the June 14, 1838 explosion on board the American steam packet, which caused it to sink 30 miles off the coast of North Carolina with the loss of two-thirds of the passengers and crew.
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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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After getting some interesting offers in March 2014, I met a rebreather diver from Gran Canaria at the Dive and Travel Show in Madrid. He suggested that I come to Gran Canaria for wreck diving.
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The Hiei was sunk off Guadalcanal Island, one of the fiercest battlefields of the Pacific War and was the first Japanese battleship to be lost in the conflict.
The Research Vessel R/V Petrel’s autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) first identified the ship in its side scan sonar on March 17.
,The discovery, described in a statement by Vulcan Inc. representatives, marks the watery grave of the Sullivan brothers — George, Francis, Joseph, Madison and Albert.
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The USS Lexington was scuttled about 800 kilometers (500 miles) miles off the eastern coast of Australia in May 1942 after sustaining serious damage from Japanese aircraft.
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It was a quiet night on 9 June 1918 when the two sister ships SMS Szent István and Tegettoff left the port of Pula (now Croatia) and set a course for Dubrovnik.
