St. Kitts offers water sports enthusiasts various options, including #snorkeling excursions, wake-boarding, and even #kite-boarding. Dive shops like Kenneth’s Dive Centre and Pro Divers Inc. guide visitors to #shipwrecks and vibrant reefs teeming with marine life. https://socanews.com/news/st-kitts-the-caribbeans-hidden-gem-for-adventure-seekers/
This is a recording of the talk given by Fiona Grahame which relates the stories of some of the men who lost their lives when M-class destroyer struck a mine off Rora Head, Orkney on 1st March 1917. The book, HMS Pheasant 1917 - who were the lost men and boys, is available from all good bookstores worldwide.
#RoyalNavy #ScapaFlow #shipwrecks #WorldWar1
https://youtu.be/g7Wme2VB2sU?si=Yu6I3mqKxFl_S3TF
Medieval Shipwreck Discovered in Sweden Could Be Oldest of Its Kind https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/medieval-shipwreck-discovered-sweden/ #archaeology #sweden #shipwrecks
‘The Big Piece’ in Las Vegas, Nevada
The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.#shipgraveyards #shipwrecks #ships #titanic #section-Atlas
‘The Big Piece’
Canute Chambers Plaque in Southhampton, England
This building was once the local office of White Star Line, the company that employed the crew on the Titanic when it sank.#ships #shipwrecks #titanic #section-Atlas
Canute Chambers Plaque
Wreck of the Marjory Glen in Argentina
This rusty hull was used as fighter plane target practice during the Falklands War.#abandoned #shipwrecks #wreck #ships #section-Atlas
Wreck of the Marjory Glen
SS American Star Propeller Hub in El Médano, Spain
This propeller hub is one of the last remnants of a ship that crashed off the coast of the Canary Islands.#diving #shipwrecks #ships #section-Atlas
SS American Star Propeller Hub
Japanese Castaways Memorial in Vancouver, Washington
A monument dedicated to "the three Kichis," who washed ashore.#shipwrecks #monuments #ships #boats #sailors #pacific #indigenous #japan #section-Atlas
Japanese Castaways Memorial
St. Paul’s Island in Malta
This tiny island is recognized as the site where St. Paul landed after a shipwreck in the first century.#christianity #history #statues #shipwrecks #saints #islands #section-Atlas
St. Paul’s Island
SS President Coolidge in Luganville, Vanuatu
This cruise ship-turned-warship sank during World War II, and is now a world-renowned dive site.#underwater #diving #worldwarii #shipwrecks #wreck #ships #section-Atlas
SS President Coolidge
Gordon Lightfoot's hit is thought instrumental in helping keep the Fitz memory alive.
Jay Gabler with an old radio story out of Duluth —
"I was doing overnights on WAKX," remembered [Dave] Strandberg, currently a host on Duluth's KDAL. "Somebody called and said they got the ('Summertime Dream') album, and they said, 'Well, there's a cut on here about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' So I listened to it and played it, and the phones basically lit up."
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/front-row-seat-when-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald-hit-duluth-airwaves
Our friends at SARA, the Stillwater Amateur Radio Association, are conducting a special event this weekend, remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald, up at Split Rock Lighthouse on the North Shore.
"WØJH will be operating from the grounds of Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, in Lake County Minnesota, Grid Square EN47, and will qualify for POTA US-2524 & US-8095, ARLHS USA-783. The Fitz passed Split Rock Lighthouse on her final voyage."
#Biden-#Harris Administration, #NOAA designate 3rd-largest national marine sanctuary
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/biden-harris-administration-noaa-designate-3rd-largest-national-marine-sanctuary
"#Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary (including #KelpForests, rocky #reefs, sandy beaches, underwater mountains and more than 200 #shipwrecks) to be managed with #tribal, #Indigenous community involvement... With this designation, the administration has now conserved more than 45 million acres of lands and waters."
What's believed to be the most valuable shipwreck in the world has been lying at the bottom of the Caribbean sea for the past 300 years. The San José was discovered off the coast of Colombia in the 1980s, and ever since, there's been a battle over who owns it and its cargo, which could be worth as much as $18bn. The Colombian and Spanish states have laid claim to it, as have a U.S. salvage company and Indigenous groups in South America. Some archaeologists and historians also say it should be left where it is out of respect for the 600 people who died upon it. The case is now before the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Here's more from @BBCNews.
#History @histodon #Archaeology #Shipwrecks #Law #MaritimeLaw #SouthAmerica #Spain
Shipwreck MV Demetrios II in Chloraka, Cyprus
This abandoned ship has remained in place since it ran aground in 1998.#underwater #wreck #shipwrecks #section-Atlas
Shipwreck MV Demetrios II
Shipwreck Park in Oak Island, North Carolina
The remains of a 19th century cargo ship now sits in the middle of a quaint neighborhood after a century spent on the ocean floor#boats #ships #shipwrecks #parks #section-Atlas
Shipwreck Park
Graveyard of Lost Species in Southend-on-Sea, England
A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats baring the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.#boats #nature #animals #endangeredspecies #shipgraveyards #graveyards #monuments #shipwrecks #ships #section-Atlas
Graveyard of Lost Species
Beached Wreck of the Warship Grom II in Hel, Poland
The rusting hulk of a Soviet warship sits on a Polish beach.#navalhistory #soviethistory #beaches #wreck #shipwrecks #ships #section-Atlas
Beached Wreck of the Warship Grom II
Where Are the World's Most Dangerous Seas?
From the Drake Passage to the Bermuda Triangle, these waters have a reputation for death and destruction.#maritimehistory #boats #storms #weather #ships #shipwrecks #oceans #section-Articles
Where Are the World's Most Dangerous Seas?
