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The SS Samuel Mather was the first of seven U.S. merchant ships to bear that name. The wooden Mather sank in 1891 after she was rammed by the steel freighter Brazil in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay 8 miles (13 km) from Point Iroquois, ending the Mather's 4-year career.
The Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Ontario off the coast of the U.S. state of New York.It protects 41 known historically significant shipwrecks spanning 200 years of American maritime history, as well as 19 potential shipwreck sites.
Argo is most famous for its role in the discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985. Argo would also play the key role in Ballard's discovery of the wreck of the battleship Bismarck in 1989. The towed sled, capable of operating depths of 6,000 meters (20,000 feet), meant 98% of the ocean floor was within reach.
A camera lost in a shipwreck has been found nearly two years after the vessel sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Vancouver Island. And not only was the device returned to its ...
The wreck matches the descriptions of the George L. Newman, which was built in 1855 and sank in 1871 during the worst forest fire in U.S. history. A 4-year-old Peshtigo girl went fishing on Lake ...
The photo showed her lying face-up on the ocean floor, something that did not come to light until a couple of weeks later when the pictures were developed. [7] Watson climbed aboard the Spoilsport and alerted dive instructor Wade Singleton, who brought Tina to the surface after ten minutes underwater. [ 1 ]
Husband and wife team, Yvonne Drebert and Zack Melnick, who specialise in underwater videography, were filming a documentary when they made the discovery Invasive mussels lead to discovery of 128 ...
Trevor Jackson returning from a dive on SS Kyogle. Captain Trevor Jackson (born 26 November 1965) is an Australian technical diver, shipwreck researcher, author and inventor.In 2002 he staged what became known as the "Centaur Dive", which subsequently led to the gazetted position of the sunken Hospital Ship AHS Centaur being questioned.