Stockholm (Global Adventures): 12 well preserved shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea by a gas consortium building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany. While most of the ships are from the 17th and 18th centuries, some of them are believed to be up to 1,000 years old, the Swedish National Heritage Board [...]

Orkney (Global Adventures): Scapa Flow is best known as the site of the United Kingdom’s chief naval base during World War I and World War II. The huge body of water is sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. The base was reinforced with minefields, artillery, and concrete barriers starting [...]

Lake Constance (Global Adventures): The Jura is perhaps the best known wreck in Lake Constance. Built in 1854 by Escher-Wyss in Zurich, the Jura was a steamboat carrying passengers across “Lake Neuchâtel” in Switzerland. In 1861, a German company purchased the ship after the sinking of the passenger boat “DS Ludwig” and moved it [...]

Washington, DC (Global Adventures): The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a five-year, $2.2 billion plan to revitalize the Great Lakes, including cleaning up polluted water and beaches, restoring wetlands and fighting invasive species such as Asian carp. At the end of last year, Congress authorized $475 million to be spent on improving the ecosystem that [...]

Avoca Beach (Global Adventures): Australian divers hope that the HMAS Adelaide will become the first artificial dive site in New South Wales (NSW). The warship is due to be sunk off Avoca Beach on March 27. Diving will start once the ship settles which is expected to be about two weeks later.
There will be six [...]

Atlanta (Global Adventures): To technical divers, the “SS Andrea Doria” is something like the Mount Everest, something most like to dive at least once, and something many experienced divers did only dive once. The Andrea Doria still is a true graveyard in the Atlantic Ocean decades after its sinking in 1956.
Named after the 16th-century Genoese [...]

Albania (Global Adventures): An international team of archaeologists has discovered the remains of the bow of HMS Volage, a British destroyer that struck a mine off the Albanian port of Saranda on October 22, 1946.
In July 2007, the RPM Nautical Foundation, a U.S. and Malta-based not-for-profit organization, began a comprehensive, ongoing archaeological survey of the [...]

Brisbane, Australia (Global Adventures): The Australian government plans to spend $4 million to locate the A.H.S. Centaur, a hospital ship which was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine I-177 14 May 1943.
The Scottish-built vessel was launched in 1924 as a combination passenger liner/freighter and operated a trade route between Western Australia and Singapore via Indonesia, carrying [...]