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Statnett, the Norwegian state-owned power grid operator, made the astounding discovery of the lost Karlsruhe cruiser around 488 meters (1,600 feet) below sea level off the Southern coast of Norway, some 13 nautical miles from the port of Kristians
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The Trail was launched in 2012 by the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research (BAR) in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which caused a dramatic drop in tourism to the Panhandle.
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An upright stern emerged through the grey-green water around 10m below me.
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It now looks as though apart from the "Operation Hailstone" ships sunk in Truk Lagoon, Micronesia will also benefit from being professionally documented too.
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The submarine was found by the Lost 52 Project, which locates lost U.S. World War II submarines, and is the first U.S. submarine discovered off the coast of Japan.
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HMS Urge—part of Britain's 10th Submarine Flotilla—left the Mediterranean island of Malta on April 27, 1942 but never made it to its destination of the Egyptian port of Alexandria.
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The ship was most famous for her bold action in the Battle off Samar. The sacrifices of Johnston and her little escort carrier task unit "Taffy 3" helped stop a massive Japanese fleet from attacking vulnerable U.S.
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This month's discoveries came after weeks of searching by crew members based on the research vessel Petrel. The vessel is owned by Vulcan Inc, a company created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
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Admiring my surroundings, I lost my breath for a moment when the walls of mangroves on either side seemed to open like a curtain to reveal a wide-open expanse of blue water and many green islands rising up from the water at different heights as fa
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Dozens of warships believed to contain the remains of thousands of British, American, Australian, Dutch and Japanese servicemen from the second world war have been illegally ripped apart by salvage divers.
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This was my third trip to Bikini but this didn’t lessen my enthusiasm to getting back there. Traveling to this Atoll, deep within the Marshal Island group, takes some doing.
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On 14 January 2019, the wreck of USS Wasp was located by the research vessel Petrel. The carrier sits upright in 4,345 meters (14,255 feet) of water, though parts of the hull appear to have split.
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IJN Hiei was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. As the second of four Kongō-class battlecruisers, it was among the most heavily armed ships of any navy at the time.
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The USS Hornet was involved in many key events of the war, including launching the famed Doolittle Raid on Tokyo—the first airborne attack on the Japanese home islands after Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into the war.
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Respected skipper and rebreather diver Emily Turton has appea
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In the midst of WW2, the USS Abner Read, a Fletcher-class destroyer, had been conducting an antisubmarine patrol off Kiska for two days without any sign of the enemy, when at 0150 on 18 August 1943 she struck a mine.
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