I was reminded of this story when reading Eric Jay Dolin’s Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World. An author and historian who specializes in maritime history, ...

For as long as people have sailed their ships, they have sunk their ships, with shipwrecks littering nearly every seabed on Earth. These wrecks, which now serve as artificial reefs for a myriad of ...

Golden sunlight fell on the two amphorae, still caked in brown ooze, as they breached the Mediterranean’s waves. Their ascent from the seafloor, more than a mile down and 60 miles from land, had taken ...

It is one of the most intrepid polar expeditions in history, costing five men their lives in 1912. Now, the wreck of SS Terra Nova, which transported Captain Robert Scott and his men to Antarctica, ...