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

In July 1945, the USS Indianapolis completed one of the most important deliveries in history, only to meet a tragic end days later. A Japanese submarine attack left the ship’s crew stranded in open ...

A new study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin shows that oil is still seeping from the wreck of the USS Arizona, more ...

A dive team has identified a shipwreck off the coast of Nantucket as a World War I-era fishing boat that sank nearly 100 years ago with more than 20 men aboard. The ST Seiner was last seen in January ...

A “ghost ship” that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has been found, according to researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater ...

BAILEYS HARBOR, WISCONSIN—For decades, shipwreck searchers scoured the depths of Lake Michigan off Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula for the famous wreck of the F.J. King, which sank in a storm in 1886. Its ...

BAILEYS HARBOR, Wis. -- Brendon Baillod wasn't expecting to find the F.J. King. Sure, the president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association (WUAA) had researched the old schooner's wreck.

It has been 40 years since explorers found the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor. A former navy officer and a French oceanographer made the discovery with an unmanned submersible. On Sept. 1, ...

On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the deck of the carrier was a farming tractor, ...

A long-lost shipwreck has been discovered in Lake Michigan. Matt Olson, owner of Door County Adventure Rafting, first suspected something might be hiding beneath the waves when he saw a dark spot on a ...

A ship that went missing in Lake Michigan 138 years ago was discovered by a rafter and shipwreck hunter from Door County, located on the peninsula of northeast Wisconsin. In mid-July, Matt Olson, ...

Another long-lost shipwreck in the waters off Door County has been found, this one the wreck of a ship that sank 138 years ago off the town of Liberty Grove. The newly found wreck is of the Frank D.