Articles for tag: Boca Raton, Buried Treasure, Shipwrecks, Treasure Hunting

Karla News

Treasure Hunting in Florida

Seventy-five percent of the earth’s surface is covered in water. This underwater world hosts sunken treasures that have accumulated over hundreds of years due to shipwrecks and other disasters. Imagine having the adventure of a lifetime and finding some of these sunken underwater treasures. One these places is right here in the US. It is ...

Karla News

Great Lakes Shipwrecks – Explore these Under Water Graveyards

Having spent my entire life living on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan, the mysteries of the Great Lakes shipwrecks have always been of huge interest. Add to that, my father was a merchant marine on the Great Lakes until the day he died having been a member of the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald ...

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The Deepest Shipwreck: Discovering an 1810 Merchant Ship

I stared at the circular opening above my head with some concern, thinking, “Uh, I can still see daylight through that.” The aperture I was concerned about was the thick hatch in the roof of the Russian Mir I manned submersible we were just about to use to plunge three miles down to the bottom ...

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The History of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The Great Lakes region will forever serve as a final resting place for countless crew members and passengers who lost their lives in the estimated 6,000+ shipwrecks that have been seized by Mother Nature. Perhaps one of the most famous of these shipwrecks is the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which was named for the newly appointed ...

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Napoli Shipwreck Looters Wreak Environmental, Legal Havoc

DEVON, UK: Looters have been flocking to Branscombe beach in Devon since the ship MSC Napoli ran aground in Lyme Bay during a severe storm last Thursday. The Napoli’s listing silhouette can be seen just offshore from where scavengers are picking through its washed up cargo. The container ship suffered structural damage to its hull ...