For a while, it looked like just another anomaly on a sonar screen. The French Navy was surveying the seabed off Ramatuelle, ...

The Underwater Photographer of the Year contest highlights compelling underwater images. The wrecks category features photos of wrecked warships and sunken planes. The winning wreck photo shows a ship ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A school of grunts on a sunken World War II German submarine in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina. Karen Doody/Stocktrek ...

Researchers have discovered an extraordinary underwater cache of shipwrecks across 328 feet of seafloor ...

Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up. Now, 40 years ...

The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 also states taking artifacts is prohibited unless licensed and grants the highest level of protection to 57 wrecks. Licensed divers act as custodians and are ...

The experimental techniques introduced during the Yassı Ada excavation in the early 1960s by a team of young archaeologists helped revolutionize a new field of study underwater. Nautical archaeologist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Underwater Photographer of the Year contest highlights compelling underwater images. The wrecks category features photos of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Avery Paxton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (THE CONVERSATION) ...