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By Elena Kovachich - The English.ruvr.ru
Baikal, the deep-diving manned vehicle Mir-2 has discovered a strange metal thing resembling a bar of gold. Unfortunately, the mini-submarine failed to reach it. Using only video recordings, experts will now try to determine whether it can really be the legendary gold of the Russian Empire. Since the first stage of the international research expedition at Lake Baikal which started in 2008, its participants have hoped to find the treasure. In the autumn...
From RPM Nautical Foundation
By Clara Moskowitz - Live Science
Three recently discovered shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea could give archaeologists new insights into the transition between medieval and modern shipbuilding. The remains of the three craft — all dating from between 1450 and 1600 — were found in the straits between Turkey and the Greek island of Rhodes. One ship appears to be a large English merchant ship, while the other two are smaller — perhaps a patrol craft...
Wally and Andrew Porter in Gjoa Haven. Photo: Daniel Scott
By Lucy Hyslop and Daniel Scott - Telegraph
Not only has the Canadian government sent a Parks Canada icebreaker into a three-week expedition into the waters near Gjoa Haven, but local Inuit in the remote Arctic hamlet are also touting the possible excavation of some alleged lost journals. Organisers today hope to unearth these ancient journals - believed to have been buried in an ancient cairn by Inuits some time over the past century...
By Andy Potts - The Moscow News
Submarines in the depths of Baikal may have solved one of the great mysteries of the Civil War.The long-lost gold of White commander Alexander Kolchak could be within reach of submersibles exploring the lake as part of a scientific mission.Environmentalists working with the mission told journalists: “Deep-sea vehicles found rectangular blocks with a metallic gleam, like gold, 400 meters below the surface.”Local residents say that sunken railway wagons...
By teve Creedy - The Australian
After weathering typhoons, carbon-dioxide poisoning and sceptics, filmmaker Damien Lay is convinced he has found the Lady Southern Cross. Lay is planning to take family members to the site in November for the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of famed Australian aviator Charles Kingsford-Smith.Kingsford-Smith disappeared over the Andaman Sea with co-pilot John Thompson "Tommy" Pethybridge in November 1935, while flying from India to Singapore on his way...
By Daniel Leaderman - Gazette.net
A piece of Bladensburg history may rise again after lying at the bottom of the Patuxent River for two hundred years.Over the next two years, archeologists will work near Upper Marlboro to excavate the wreck of a ship believed to be the USS Scorpion, part of an American flotilla that clashed with the British Navy just prior to the Battle of Bladensburg in the War of 1812, to coincide with the war's upcoming bicentennial."It represents a time capsule of what a...
From BBC News
Thieves have targeted a historically important submarine wreck lying in the English Channel, it has emerged.English Heritage said divers stole the torpedo tube hatch of the Holland 5, which sank six miles off Eastbourne in East Sussex in 1912.The theft was discovered during a licensed dive by the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) in June and confirmed during a dive last month.The NAS described the wreck as a "remarkable piece of naval heritage".Sussex Police and English Heritage...
By Joe Wojtas - The Day.com
The Ocean Technology Foundation will launch its fifth expedition later this summer to search for the wreck of John Paul Jones' Revolutionary War ship the Bonhomme Richard in the North Sea.The two-week expedition may provide the best chance yet to find the famed ship off the northeast coast of England as the U.S. and French navies are providing state-of-the-art sonar systems, an oceanographic survey ship, a mine hunter, underwater vehicles and divers."This is the latest...
By Deidre Woollard - Luxist
From the depths of the ocean to your wine cellar. Spectrum Wine Auctions, Southern California's leading auction house of fine and rare wine, will hold its first sale of the fall 2010 auction season on September 24 including a bottle of shipwrecked Madeira wine dating to the 1800s. The bottle, which is estimated at $1200 was discovered off of the Savannah, Georgia coast by professional diver Bill Kinsey in the late 1970s. The lot comes from a collector who bought the...
From Yle.fi
A group of Swedish divers have begun lifting to the surface a sunken consignment of champagne dating from the 1700’ from the seabed in the Åland Islands. Diving for the liquid treasure of around 80 champagne bottles started last week. The bottles are located in the hull of a vessel that sunk sometime in the eighteenth century. Both the vessel and its cargo of champagne are property of the Åland autonomous region. It has not yet decided what to do with the bottles....
From VOA News
Russian authorities say a mini-submarine plumbing the depths of Lake Baikal has found several shiny metal objects that could be evidence of the legendary Czarist gold lost nearly a century ago during the country's civil war.Explorers discovered the metal objects - described as resembling gold bullion - 400 meters below Lake Baikal's surface Monday. Attempts so far, however, to pick up the objects with a mechanical arm have failed. Explorers have long been hunting for the treasure,...
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