A cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup were among the first objects Colombian scientists recovered from the depths of the Caribbean Sea where the mythical Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 ...

The SS United States will be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to become the world's largest artificial reef. The historic ocean liner will be located near the USS Oriskany, creating a premier diving ...

A 227-foot-long freighter, once used to smuggle cocaine, was sunk off Stuart on Nov. 18. The Borocho was sunk in about 200 feet of water nine miles off the St. Lucie Inlet. Martin County named it ...

Martin County will sink former smuggling vessel as artificial reef on Tuesday, Nov. 18. Artificial reefs provide 39,000 jobs for Floridians and generates $3.1 billion of economic activity annually.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975 remains one of the most legendary and tragic events in Great Lakes history, particularly for Northern Ohio, where nearly half of ...

Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ballad it inspired—still haunt the popular imagination Ellen Wexler - Assistant ...

Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew were fighting for their lives in a battle against the "Witch of November" when his final words went out over the radio. “We are holding our own." Less than 15 ...

The British ocean liner was torpedoed by the Germans during World War I, killing over one thousand people and changing the tide of war. But controversy still surrounds the disaster as some questions ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot ore carrier that sank during a storm on the night of Nov. 10, 1975, in Lake Superior. Twenty-nine crew ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, during a severe storm with 80-mph winds. All 29 crew members aboard the massive ore carrier perished in the disaster. Many Great Lakes ...

No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...