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"The wreckage of the doomed ship was not discovered until 1985 off the coast of Newfoundland."
"One of the most fascinating books I ever read was the book chronicling the discovery of the Shipwreck of the Central America, 'The Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea'."
"In 1629, a Dutch merchant vessel called the Batavia ran aground on a small coral island roughly 37 miles off the Australian coast."
"If I am advertising on that channel my advertisements are reaching a million different people that's far more valuable."
"They saw the damage firsthand. Water was flooding in, the iceberg had scraped the sides of the ship, and the watertight doors were immediately closed."
"Considered the world's most valuable shipwreck, the Nuestra Señora de Atocha was loaded with tons of gold and silver taken from South America destined for Spain in 1622."
"The Edward Boland shipwreck is... the most amazing shipwreck found anywhere in the world."
"The Whydah Gally became the first-ever pirate shipwreck authenticated beyond any doubt."
"A shipwreck filled with lost gold is solving a mystery from the 16th century."
"Shipwreck Holy Grail: two ships found near Spanish Galleon full of gold worth 17 billion."
"World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in the Black Sea."
"Drone captures sinking of 180-degree cargo ship Voisi Bernadette."
"The discovery of Endurance is considered to be one of the most challenging shipwreck explorations to this day."
"The Spanish galleon San Jose: sunk off the coast of Cartagena with billions in treasure."
"It now sits on the shore of the beach as an added tourist attraction."
"It's considered to be the best preserved shipwreck of its era and may be the only ship of its kind from that time period, making it a pretty incredible shipwreck on its own."
"Mysterious shipwreck: Remains found on Bald Head Island."
"The 2400 year old boat in the Black Sea... the oldest intact shipwreck in the world."
"The footage is pretty spectacular... how many people can honestly say they've ever seen a ship sinking in person?"
"The lost vessel of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton was found recently at the bottom of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica."
"Discovery of a decade: astonishingly intact 400 year old shipwreck found off the coast of Cascais."
"The enormous shipwreck was located in January 2020, it's an incredible 120 feet long and 20 feet wide."
"Most famous, the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Titanic of the Great Lakes."
"The Fitzgerald lies 160 meters below surface, a gravesite where diving is forbidden."
"There's no feeling like being the first person to lay eyes on the ship since it sank."
"The replacement ship was equipped with a Stern gate. The company was criticized for using the exact same name for this new ship, indicating that they were eager to erase the tragedy from memory."
"The Salvage Masters must first gather necessary data and coordinates for locating the Shipwreck and determining its condition."
"Some experts suggest the Mary Celeste would have been a safer bet than the lifeboat even if she had suffered an explosion and that Briggs would have been a fool to abandon ship."
"To many, an alcohol-fuelled explosion and a desperate evacuation is the most logical and scientifically sound explanation of what happened to those aboard the Mary Celeste."
"Everyone who wasn't immediately killed made it off the ship."
"The location of the wreck was unknown and then in 1985 its remains were found on the seabed."
"For more than a century, the Pacific's whereabouts was a mystery until two men, Matthew McCauley and Jeff Hummel from the Northwest Shipwreck Alliance, finally spotted the sunken treasure steamboat."
"The HMS Exeter was missing. In its place was a 30-foot crater that ran 180 feet long, the shape of a ship's hull, in an otherwise flat seabed."
"It's probably one of the most important shipwreck finds ever."
"The wreck of the SS Norwich City, it's an obvious scar on the otherwise untainted reef."
"How do you shipwreck on a beach? Carefully."
"...the mighty and unsinkable Edmund Fitzgerald."
"She was the pride of the American side."
"The Charles S. Price will always be remembered as the mystery ship."
"The wreck of the White Ship in 1120, a wreck that was probably as famous in the time as the wreck of the Titanic is now."
"The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture will display objects from each relationship that sank off the coast of Cape Town in 1794."
"Crew members pour out of the fragmented ship, washed away with the water like ants fleeing a flooding nest."
"Unlike the bow, the stern still had air pockets when it went under."
"It's the story of the Princess Sophia, which ran aground and sank after some 40 hours of being stranded, taking with her all 350 plus passengers and crew."
"The photographs of the Szent Istvan are a window to a sunken world."
"On the Szent Istvan, a life and death struggle begins."
"It is worth remembering that as we look at the remains of USS Juno."
"That something so fragile could have survived the violence of a shipwreck is quite remarkable."
"Wasp isn't just a wreck; she's a living reminder of our history."
"These findings are important because the iron fitting is certainly from one of the Franklin shipwrecks."
"The 18th century ship Vrouw Maria is estimated to be the most valuable treasure ship in the world."
"A 2,400-year-old boat in the Black Sea... the oldest intact shipwreck ever discovered."
"I can still sit here now and see that liner just sliding beneath the waves."
"The unthinkable happens when this unsinkable liner sinks."
"The USS Samuel B. Roberts... claimed the title of the deepest shipwreck ever found."
"A ghost ship, as it's being called."
"Exploring the abandoned MV Alta shipwreck off the coast of Ireland had been spoken about between us ever since its abandonment went global in 2020, with it being one of our biggest dreams to visit."
"This discovery was another notch on the belt of Veteran shipwreck Hunters."
"The Salem Express is said to be the most haunted shipwreck in the world."
"The Antikythera shipwreck... landed upon the richest ancient shipwreck that's ever been found."
"It's like being on a ship that crashes into an iceberg."
"Last year, scientists were able to identify a ship missing in the Bermuda Triangle almost 100 years ago."
"A magnificent vessel sank in only 18 short, shocking minutes after being struck by a single primitive torpedo."
"The removal and wreckage represents a legal argument that was used to make the ship's owners responsible for its running aground."
"The vessel broke into two sections."
"The removal of the stern proved to be more difficult than originally anticipated."
"Shockingly, a shipwreck was discovered on the dry beds of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana."
"Ultimately, the ship is a piece of history that can help us learn more about the Mississippi River and the people who lived along it."
"One of the most interesting wreck sites that I've ever worked on."
"Lusitania means a lot to a lot of people for different reasons, and although she is perhaps not so well known as Titanic, she really holds a special place in history."
"Best wreck dive for me, they're in Chuck Lagoon."
"I was dumbstruck with awe; the ship was there."
"This is the true story of five sailors shipwrecked in the Atlantic with no food and no water."
"This is definitely shipwreck treasure."
"And she disappeared, never seen again. No one knows really where she's been lost."
"At 2:10 PM, a large explosion occurred on Lusitania's starboard side, close to the bridge."
"The most forgotten about shipwreck in maritime history."
"The surviving ancestors of a shipwreck that happened off the coast hundreds of years ago."
"This particular storm sank at least one vessel on four of the five Great Lakes."
"The ship sank quite picturesquely, bow first, the stern rising high out of the water."
"The corpse of old whitey has been perfectly preserved since the tragic shipwreck of the 1920s."
"Titanic, history's most infamous ship, her sinking shocked the globe."
"If you were inside of a shipwreck or whatnot and this occurred, you could still safely get neutrally buoyant and work your way back out to the exit point without panic."
"The deepest shipwreck in the world has just been found in an impossible depth in the Philippines."
"It's considered one of the world's most beautiful shipwrecks."
"The San Jose is probably the richest shipwreck in the world."
"The ring was part of a treasure lost to the sea in 1715 when the ship carrying it from the New World to Spain was caught in a devastating hurricane and sank."
"The Acts of the Apostles mention that in the 1st century the ship of St. Paul was wrecked off the coast of Malta."
"You ever seen an octopus as big as an entire shipwreck?"
"The change of mentality took place at the end of the 70s in the early 80s when the sunken ship began to be seen as a historical document."
"The shipwreck of Shackleton's Endurance remains one of the most significant discoveries in Antarctica."
"All it took was a single iceberg to bring that mighty vessel down."
"The great unsinkable ship was gone, sunk into the bottom of the North Atlantic where it remained to this day."
"Archaeologists discover 2,200-year-old Egyptian shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea."
"Interesting fact: this wreck was sunk in 2016, so only six years ago, and you can see it's already completely covered in life."
"She didn't know anything except that the life that she had planned with Henry went down with that ship."
"The hull entirely broke up, and some of the wreck was cast up on the beach."
"What if I was to tell you that there's a shipwreck out there that not that many people know about?"
"This shipwreck is largely known as the White Star Line's first Titanic."
"The sinking of the RMS Taylor, given that it was its maiden voyage and everything, it is commonly referred to as the first Titanic."
"The remains of a mysterious ship from 500 years ago have been discovered on the coastline of Southern England."
"The challenge itself of finding the shipwreck is what makes it so intriguing."
"This represents an old shipwreck that has partially been encrusted over many years with various growths."
"I have reason to believe that Denmark Tanny was the sole survivor of the Royal Merchant wreck."
"This disaster is known today as the Lost Franklin Expedition, and it's one of the most tragic and epic Arctic shipwrecks in history."
"The overall condition of the wreck is well preserved and it's an astounding sight."
"The largest ancient shipwreck ever found."
"The discoveries also inspired the group to look beyond the first shipwreck."
"It is the most famous shipwreck in history, the stuff of which legends are made."
"How could such a mighty vessel have gone down so suddenly, taking 29 men to their graves?"
"The Fitzgerald really has a certain kind of mystique."