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Boy in Ukraine makes amazing long-distance, deep-sea discovery
Kirill Dudko, a 14-year-old from Ukraine, has provided scientists in Canada with remarkable footage from their own remote deep-sea cameras: the first-known photo documentation of an elephant seal slurping a hagfish from the sea floorat an astonishing depth of 2,933 feet. (Watch the mammal grab the hagfish in the first clip, and see scientist Steven Mihaly explain Dudko’s discovery in the second.) Dudko, who is obsessed with deep-sea biology, spends lots of time monitoring video feeds from sea-fl...
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Shipwreck found off coast of Cape Cod Ma.
A Portland, Maine-based company is hoping to retrieve at least one box of platinum ingots from a World War II shipwreck off Cape Cod — and thereby salvage its own operation.Greg Brooks, co-founder and principal of Sub Sea Research LLC, believes that 1.7 million ounces of platinum ingots worth an estimated $3 billion is still with the Port Nicholson, a steam-powered 481-foot British freighter that reportedly sank 50 miles northeast of Provincetown after being torpedoed June 16, 1942.Research of p...
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112 year old shipwreck found in Lake Michigan
AP – This photograph, provided Thursday, June 24, 2010, by Great Lakes Shipwreck Research, shows the gangway … Slideshow: 112-year-old shipwreck found preserved By DINESH RAMDE, Associated Press Writer Dinesh Ramde, Associated Press Writer– Thu Jun 24, 6:25 pm ET MILWAUKEE – A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved by the co...
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