Dark secret of underwater treasure
Updated: 2010-08-31 11:27:00
From RT (first published st of May, 2010)
After a decade of painstaking underwater searching, the wreck of a Soviet World War II submarine has been found in the Baltic Sea.The vessel went down with its fifty-man crew in 1940 after being sunk by a mine laid by Finland. The relatives of those who died say it is a matter of honor to establish what really happened all those years ago.For seventy years, it was a mystery how, where and even when the S-2 submarine perished. During the...
By Lacie Lowry - The News On 6
A massive restoration project is under way in Muskogee on a true war hero. The USS Batfish is a World War II submarine that's highly decorated with military honors, but her condition has highly deteriorated over the years.A group of Active Duty and Reserve Chief Petty Officers of the United States Navy spent Saturday painting the USS Batfish black, restoring the submarine to her glory days of World War II."It amazes me how many people don't realize we have a sub...
By Marilyn Ong - he Star
Sunken treasures ! The very words conjure up dazzling visions of romance and adventure on the high seas. Professor Augustine Vinh speaks on the perils of collecting sunken treasures.Internationally acclaimed sunken treasure hunter and collector Professor Augustine Vinh does not at all comply with one’ image of a treasure hunter — deeply-tanned and with rock solid physique.“I don’ dive nor scour the sea beds, picking up centuries-old porcelain...
By Edward D. Murphy Kennebec Journal
Treasure hunter Greg Brooks, who led a trouble-plagued relief mission to Haiti last winter, has set his sights on a salvage job with both business and humanitarian components.Brooks, who is from Gorham, wants to put his sea salvage skills to work removing an estimated 16,000 pounds of valuable mercury from a 66-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Maine. He contends the mission would defuse a ticking environmental time bomb, though scientists have concluded...
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By Keith Morelli - The Tampa Tribune
In the pitch-black depths of an isolated North Port spring sits a silt-covered ledge that is revealing secrets about a prehistoric nomadic people, secrets held in murky silence for 100 centuries.Now, with diving gear and artifact-collecting bags, archaeologists with the University of Miami and The Florida Aquarium are sweeping away the muck and uncovering that distant past.This stuff could be as old as 13,000 years old, when wandering tribes traversed Florida....
From bs4.com
The bar was in an exhibit that allowed people to hold it without danger of theft, or so museum operators thought. The insurance company is offering a $10 thousand reward.It was a piece of history worth half-a-million dollars that you could reach out and touch, part of the treasure from the galleon Santa Maria on display at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West. But where the bar used to be is now an empty exhibit. Apparently, someone managed to baffle security and walk...
By Jamie Tarabay - NPR
They call it the mystery ship: a wooden vessel that may have sailed the Hudson River and the East Coast, transporting goods between the flourishing Colonies. Its remains were found last month in the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City. They've since been moved to a science lab in Maryland, where each day brings new discoveries.The first thing that hits you when you lean toward the enormous tanks filled with water, where scientists use small brushes to clean...
By Amanda Kerr - The Virginia Gazette
Two years ago a sonar company in Gloucester was testing equipment in the York River when the crew hit the jackpot: an uncharted shipwreck on the river bottom.“That was quite a surprise,” said David Hazzard, an archaeologist with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.The area where the ship was found is well-documented. There have previously been nine documented shipwrecks in the York River associated with the Revolutionary War and the...