More than 4000 Japanese soldiers perished when Chuuk Lagoon, known as "Truk" at the time, was bombarded by US forces at the ...

It’s technically not a foreign country, but Norfolk Island has its own language (called Norf’k, it’s derived from ...

alveston has no shortage of tourist attractions, but so many of them are so, well, touristy. The SS Selma, a 103-year-old ...

The hundreds of silver coins were found over the summer on a shipwreck that is believed to have been part of a lost fleet of up to a dozen Spanish treasure ships known today as the 1715 Fleet, ...

After finding a timber piece with an iron nail in a Roman harbor, researchers began excavating the region, and after four ...

Elliot Foote was at the mercy of the sea with his friends before heroically paddling off from the group in search of help and ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

The Egan Maritime Institute is currently investigating what could be a piece of history on Low Beach in the ‘Sconset area of ...

A team of excavators has found $1 million in treasure from a centuries-old Spanish shipwreck off a stretch of Florida known ...

In 1629, the Batavia - a Dutch East India Company flagship - struck a reef off the coast of Western Australia. Over 200 passengers and crew survived the initial wreck, but what followed was far more ...

The discovery was part of a "vast fortune carried by the fleet, which was transporting New World riches back to Spain," the company said.