Shipwreck treasure off Goa coast
Updated: 2010-05-31 03:55:58
By Mayabhushan - Panaji
Next time you are headed for Goa, it makes sense to pack in your scuba gear along with swimming trunks.With more than three shipwrecks discovered and explored off the State’ coast in the last seven years, marine scientists at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) here believe that Goa might be the next big thing as far as underwater shipwreck exploration is concerned. “We have begun explorations since 1988 but regular, organised explorations began in...
From Eitb.com
Pedro Terrón, author of Kalitxi: The Lost City made the announcement during a hectic press conference alongside archaeologists and researchers.
Pedro Terrón, author of the Kalitxi saga about the shipwreck suffered by the Santo Cristo de Maracaibo boat in 1702, gave a press conference on Thursday in which he confirmed that the remains of a ship discovered in 2004 in the Vigo estuary are, with "99.9%" certainty, those of the Maracaibo wreckage.The announcement...
By Pete Gallivan - WGRZ.com
It was a journey that began christmas morning, 1943 in Wheatfield. A P-39 Airacobra, one of the 30,000 planes produced here in Western New York for the war effort, rolls from the hanger and takes off, headed west. She was one of 10,000 planes, many from here in Western New York, that were sent to Russia. It was also a bit of WNY technology turned the tide against the Nazi's.The P-39 was known as the "flying cannon". She was a force in the air. It was equipped...
By Joe Crankshaw - TCPalm
A larger than life-size, bronze statue depicting a fully equipped Navy SEAL, will become the center of a memorial to fallen Underwater Demolition Team men and Navy SEALs on May 28 at the National UDT-SEAL Museum on North Hutchinson Island.“It will memorialize all who have given their lives in all wars,” said retired Navy Capt. Michael R, Howard, director of the museum. Howard is a retired SEAL. The acronym stands for Sea, Air and Land, where the highly...
From People's Daily Online
A new batch of cultural relics from the ancient ship of Nan'ao No.1 were salvaged and exhibited on May 18, including 2 tin pots, walnuts and other porcelains carrying cultural elements of Han and Buddhism. Therefore, experts concluded that Nan'ao No.1's destination might have been Southeast Asia.
Sun Jian, the leader of the archaeology team for Nan'ao No.1, said those color glaze porcelains salvaged yesterday are more delicate than relics from the ancient ship...
From BBC News
Unlicensed salvagers have been identified as the biggest threat to the shipwreck of HMS Victory in a report. More than 1,000 sailors drowned when the British warship, the predecessor to Lord Nelson's Victory, sank in a storm. he report is part of the public consultation into the future management of the 1744 shipwreck in the English Channel. Consultation ends on 30 June. The authors of the report said unauthorised salvage could result in "irreparable damage" to the...
By Ray Edgar - The age.com.au
When oceanographer Robert Ballard discovered the Titanic in 1985, 4 km. below the Atlantic surface, the debris of the ship was scattered over 2.5 kilometers of ocean floor. Since then, those remains have been scattered around the world. At any one time there are eight Titanic: The Artefact Exhibitions on display. And, if they are anything like the Melbourne Museum's exhibition, all are excellent at telling the stories of the doomed ship.With 1517 passengers...
By Laura Bien - The Ann Harbor chronicle
In the summer of 1852, $36,000 in cash and gold bars lay in a locked safe 165 feet deep on the floor of Lake Erie.
Worth $920,000 today, the riches lay within the wreck of the steamship Atlantic. So did more grisly testimony of the shipwreck’ victims, estimated as ranging from 130 to over 250. The deaths represented about a third of the 576 travelers packed onto a steamship meant to accommodate far fewer.The era’ stream of immigrants...