Marc-André Bernier, Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology manager, discusses his team’s role in documenting and protecting…
Browsing: Shipwrecks
When I was a child, I dreamed of adventures like the ones that Indiana Jones…
America’s greatest museum of our past as a seafaring nation lies on the bottom of…
The Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre (BCM&CC) is pleased to announce that they have…
NOAA today released for public comment a draft plan for a national marine sanctuary in…
On 25th July 1956, the 213m Andrea Doria collided with Swedish liner the Stockholm 100 miles off…
The Boreas was deliberately sunk in 1989 for the purpose of creating an artificial reef…
This episode is scheduled to be shown in the UK on Channel 5 at 9pm…
This documentary about the A. J. Goddard started in 2014 and directed by Jesse Davidge. Blatant Studio…
Save Ontario Shipwrecks is inviting both members and the general public to the 2021 Annual General…
Wreck Hunter Multimedia Presentations are ideal for dive shops, dive clubs, High Schools, Historical Societies,…
George F. Bass; December 9, 1932–March 2, 2021 Age 88 We announce the passing of…
2020’s update on the first-ever exploration of the interior of HMS Terror. In one of the…
A mooring rope from Edmund Fitzgerald has a special significance for Ray and Joyce Sloman…
On 25 October 1918, after grounding on Vanderbilt Reef in the Lynn Canal near Juneau,…
Are you an Advanced Open Water Diver, or need to do your Deep or Wreck…
The Breadalbane was a three-masted merchant ship designed in 1843 by Hedderwich & Rowan in…
Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre Director, Cathy McGirr announced the Museum is to become…
Dan’s Dive Shop’s Matt Mandziuk, his dive mates, Russia’s Alexey Vlasov and California’s Anton Kozhevnikov…
The shelf life of ghost ships tends to be lengthy. It has been 231 years…
The Michigan Maritime Museum lecture series in South Haven, Michigan, begins on March 25, 2020…
On September 30th, Richardson, Wimer and friend Brent Tompkins returned to the site and Wimer was able to photograph the mysterious ghost ship. Wimer described the small sailing vessel as being “the most intact shipwreck I have ever encountered”.
With waves breaking over the bow the Alexandria grounded on the sand underneath the Scarborough Bluffs, and the ship began to break up.
On August 8, 1922, at L’Anse Amour, Newfoundland, Bromley raced the flagship through thick fog and ran her aground.
For centuries, the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes have shaped the story of Canada. The Descending team of Scott Wilson and Andre Dupuis takes a trip through history and visits the world’s best collection of freshwater shipwrecks to discover what makes this water so great.
For centuries, the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes have shaped the story of…
Canadian singer and song-writer Gord Lightfoot has said that Lake Superior never gives up it’s…
October 25, 2017 marks the 99th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Princess Sophia, a Victoria-based vessel that transported passengers up the coast to Skagway, Alaska, with several community stops along the way.
October 25, 2017 marks the 99th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Princess Sophia,…
Attention – Kingston and area divers. We will be having a first meeting for a…
A diving helmet has played a role on dry land, as well as in the water. Its inventors, brothers John and Charles Deane, patented what they called a “Smoke Helmet” in 1823. It enabled fire fighters to work in smoke-filled areas.
A diving helmet has played a role on dry land, as well as in the…
The PEI SCUBA Divers group is excited to announce the discovery of a new shipwreck in PEI waters.
The PEI SCUBA Divers group is excited to announce the discovery of a new shipwreck…
Sometimes it is as difficult to prove the identity of a sunken ship as it is to find it. That is central to the story of the long-sought Griffon, which disappeared in 1679.
Sometimes it is as difficult to prove the identity of a sunken ship as it…
This wreck video by Terry Irvine, is known only as Petre 2 and is located in Lake Ontario,…
From a diver’s perspective one of the advantages of purposely sinking a ship when it…
Canada’s Rideau waterway linking Ottawa (the nation’s capital) with Kingston Ontario was built…
It is the early summer of 1943 and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is well into its fourth year of existence. Potential air crews from across the Commonwealth are gathered and training is in high gear producing well-trained crews capable of contributing to the war effort. Across Canada the skies are filled with the droning sounds of training aircraft of many types.
It is the early summer of 1943 and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is…
The Princess May (first named Cass, then later, Arthur, Cass (again), Ningchow, and Hating) was 249 feet (76 m) long, 33-foot (10 m) beam, 18-foot (5.5 m) depth of hold, 1717 gross and 1394 registered tons.
The Princess May (first named Cass, then later, Arthur, Cass (again), Ningchow, and Hating) was…
So rare were ships on the prairies that when a steamer for the Pearson Land…
You don’t have to be a scuba diver to see the wreck of the MV Ithaca. But you do have to pick the right time of day. That would be low tide, when the 80-metre ship is sitting on the sandy bottom. You can walk close enough for a good view but don’t get too close and definitely do not try to board it because the wreck is not safe.