Side scan sonar of an historic ship's wooden frame in the Sabine River/Lake area of LA/TX. The portion exposed measures 21.71 m long by 5.56 m wide. #Shipwrecks #maritime #Archaeology
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Estatua de Maruxaina in San Cibrao, Spain
This mermaid sculpture commemorates a Galician legend and an annual trial.#shipwrecks #festivals #folklore #mermaids #section-Atlas
Estatua de Maruxaina
Atlas Obscura · Estatua de MaruxainaThis mermaid sculpture commemorates a Galician legend and an annual trial.
#Ireland #shipwrecks #GLAM #Lusitania
'A Kinsale-based heritage group has received planning permission from Cork County Council for a new museum to commemorate the Lusitania.
The Old Head Signal Tower Heritage CLC has gotten the green light for a new Lusitania Museum on a site close to where the vessel infamously sank more than 100 years ago.'
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41618131.html
Irish Examiner · Cork heritage group gets go-ahead to build Lusitania museum
This 400 year-old wedding gown, embroidered with silver, was discovered remarkably intact in a chest from the 1620s wreck of the Palmwood, buried in sand off the Dutch coast https://smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dutch-divers-found-17th-century-dress-buried-under-the-sea-180958843/
@artinsociety #shipwrecks #costume #weddings #marinearchaeology
Titanic's Legacy: Our Favorite Reads
The world's fastest glacier, Chartreuse jelly, and other stories connected to the doomed ocean liner.#ourfavoritereads #disasters #glaciers #history #shipwrecks #ships #titanic #section-Articles
Titanic's Legacy: Our Favorite Reads
Atlas Obscura · Titanic's Legacy: Our Favorite Reads
777 #ClimateEmergency #Shipwrecks
"The toxic legacy of shipwrecks" [ ± 1min]
by DW Planet A
--------There is a longer video on the same topic:
-----> The lurking oil spills no one is talking about <- [11:42 min]
-----> youtube.com/watch?v=OyKW_D9PcZk <-
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_asTsK7VcTw
Quote by DWPA:
"Apr 6, 2025
The bottom of the ocean is full of weird-looking fish... and billions of gallons of oil hiding in rusting wrecks."
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
Sonar of an historic iron barge, Site 16ST135, in a St. Tammany Parish, LA, waterway. #shipwrecks #archaeology
Adamantia K at The Red Sea Wreck Project - #RedSeaWrecks 
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https://bit.ly/3StdBA9
The Red Sea Wreck Project · Adamantia K - The Red Sea Wreck ProjectThe Adamantia “K” was originally built as the 844 GRT cargo ship Marienburg at Bremer Vulkan Werke, Stettiner Oberwerke Stettin-Grabow (Yard No. 674) for the Neue Dampfer Companie, Stettin. Construction of the ship commenced
Sonar of a sunken 11.2 m long wooden barge in a southwest Louisiana waterway. #Shipwrecks #sonar #archaeology
Ex-Cyclone Alfred uncovers two shipwrecks over 100 years old in Australia https://www.byteseu.com/813596/ #alfred #Australia #CycloneAlfred #DickyBeach #NorthernNewSouthWales #PaddleSteamer #RonCreber #shipwrecks
This is a recording of the talk given by Fiona Grahame which relates the stories of some of the men who lost their lives when M-class destroyer struck a mine off Rora Head, Orkney on 1st March 1917. The book, HMS Pheasant 1917 - who were the lost men and boys, is available from all good bookstores worldwide.
#RoyalNavy #ScapaFlow #shipwrecks #WorldWar1
https://youtu.be/g7Wme2VB2sU?si=Yu6I3mqKxFl_S3TF
Shipwrecks reconstructed
A Lego model of the ship Batavia, wrecked on its maiden voyage in 1629, at the exhibition Brickwrecks: Sunken Ships in Lego Bricks at the Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent. It took 1,336.5 hours and 170,463 bricks to create eight ships dating from the oldest known shipwreck in about 1300 BC, Chatham, #UK
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
Medieval Shipwreck Discovered in Sweden Could Be Oldest of Its Kind https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/medieval-shipwreck-discovered-sweden/ #archaeology #sweden #shipwrecks
Medievalists.net · Medieval Shipwreck Discovered in Sweden Could Be Oldest of Its Kind - Medievalists.netMaritime archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest known carvel-built ship from the Nordic region. The wreck, found in Landfjärden near Häringe, south of Stockholm, dates back to the late Middle Ages and offers new insights into the evolution of shipbuilding in northern Europe.
‘The Big Piece’ in Las Vegas, Nevada
The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.#shipgraveyards #shipwrecks #ships #titanic #section-Atlas
‘The Big Piece’
Atlas Obscura · ‘The Big Piece’The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.
Side scan sonar of a shipwreck on the bottom of a Livingston Parish, LA, waterway. Based on the sonar program it measures approximately 7.72 m (25.33 ft) long by 2.60 m (8.53 ft) wide. The shape is similar to a small river launch with rounded stern. #shipwrecks #archaeology #sonar
A Diver Stumbled Upon the Treasure of a Lifetime—and It May Lead to a Hidden Shipwreck.
He uncovered 30,000 coins ancient coins in remarkable condition. They had to have come from somewhere.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a63574423/diver-finds-hidden-coins-treasure/ #diving #underwaterarchaeology #shipwrecks
Canute Chambers Plaque in Southhampton, England
This building was once the local office of White Star Line, the company that employed the crew on the Titanic when it sank.#ships #shipwrecks #titanic #section-Atlas
Canute Chambers Plaque
Atlas Obscura · Canute Chambers PlaqueThis building was once the local office of White Star Line, the company that employed the crew on the Titanic when it sank.