For lovers of maritime history. The Scuba News brings you details of maritime disasters from around the world.
Six craftsmen were flown by Norurflug helicopter pilot Gsli Gslason on June 23, 2017 to…
Friendship 500, a floating McDonald’s restaurant, also known as the McBarge, anchored in Burrard Inlet…
Rick Wheeler CC BY-SA 3.0 @ Wikipedia Off the beaten path but definitely worth a visit…
The Scuba News Canada covered the SS Norisle in October 2018. At that point, the…
Silent colour 16mm film of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s launch by R.J. Anderson and Company on…
I, Padraic Ryan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse is a…
Thunder Bay is close to one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the…
The steamboat Put-in-Bay travelled from Detroit to Sandusky from 1911 until 1949, with stops at…
Photo via Amazon Facing the fury and danger of Lake Michigan. Written by Michael Passwater.…
The Wooden Boat Museum in Winterton, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, celebrates the skill and ingenuity of…
Photo via Facebook On July 15th, Bob Jaeck and Brendon Baillod located an historic Wisconsin…
From 1959 to 1974, HMCS Chaudière was a Restigouche-class destroyer and the second vessel of…
Charles K. Hyde, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons “Leave well enough alone” is an expression.…
Photo via Facebook We’ve all heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald and her November 10, 1975…
The Walton Harbour lighthouse in Nova Scotia stands 6.1m (20ft) tall and 18.3m (60ft) above…
The 460-foot vessel, SS New Grand Haven (Patrick Morris) was built for the West India…
The Mary Rose Museum is absolutely beautiful. It is well thought out, it’s incredibly simple to…
The McGulpin Point Light was built to aid navigation through the Straits of Mackinac. The…
The Fort Amherst Lighthouse, also known as the Fort Amherst Light, is a lighthouse located…
The Alvin Clark was sailing empty through Lake Michigan to Oconto, Wisconsin, on June 19,…
The S.S. Florizel ran aground off the coast of Cappahayden, Newfoundland, 105 years ago, caught…
The Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck discovery known to archeologists. The wreck has…
This is the in-depth story of the Ocean Ranger Oil Rig Disaster of 1982. This…
Ghost Ships follows pro salvage diver Tony Sampson (Curse of Oak Island) and his team…
The SS Wexford was a steel-hulled, propeller-driven cargo ship built in Sunderland, England in 1883…
“A maritime mystery drives this powerful narrative; but the greatest strength of HMS Speedy may be its…
The HMCS Ojibwa is Ontario’s only submarine that is open to the public for tours.…
Piliriqatigiingniq – the Inuit societal value or Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) of working together for a common cause –…
Glenn and Bessie Hyde left Emery Kolb’s house near the Bright Angel Trail of the…
Typo, a three-masted schooner, was built in 1873. The vessel was built by Milwaukee’s Wolfe…
Photo Credit: Michigan Mysteries The 138 foot schooner Gilbert Morrison disappeared somewhere in the Manitou…
Today, the bulk of traffic in the harbour is recreational. A staggering mix of private…
Many have heard eerie tales of ships like the Mary Celeste, pushed into popular lore…
The SS John V. Moran, a wooden-hulled American package freighter in service between 1888 and…
The Port Dover Harbour Museum promotes and preserves Port Dover’s history, with a focus on…
Salvagers have asked permission to raise some of the finest liquor in England, but so…
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) announced the discovery of a well-preserved wreck in…
The 292-foot Whaleback barge was discovered in Lake Superior exactly 100 years after it was…
A dozen wooden timbers from the suspected Santo Cristo be Burgos have been discovered in…
William James Roué (April 27, 1879 – January 14, 1970) was a naval architect best…
Working at sea is inherently dangerous. Ships and workers alike must be seaworthy in order…
Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons “One of the most spectacular shipwrecks you’ll ever…
Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, 6th September at 11am for fall presentation – 2022…
The 100th anniversary of the loss of the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Raleigh on August…
The Atlantic Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The…
