However, help is underway as Australian and Japanese governments are launching initiatives to clean up the ocean floor and survey the risks of the shipwrecks contaminating the Pacific. The report ...

Donning a snorkel and mask and grabbing hold of a rope fixed to the stern of a motorboat, Rouja searches the sea floor for clues ... period of history, a shipwreck, the ocean," says Rouja.

It is estimated that there are 3,800 shipwrecks scattered across the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Most date from the Second World War. However, shipwrecks are not an issue consigned to the past. In the ...

In 1917, a civil engineer pioneered the first deep-sea vehicle to attempt filming underwater. A century later, we have James ...

Items from the Belitung shipwreck can be seen at Asia Society Museum's 'Secrets ... here are the stories behind four vessels that still await discovery on the ocean floor. Of the 1,196 sailors and ...

video: The No. 50 submarine chaser and other shipwrecks resting on the ocean floor near the Ogasawara island chain south of Tokyo. (Kotaro Ebara and Takuya Isayama) ...

Three centuries ago, the English attacked a Spanish treasure fleet off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. During the attack, the San José, carrying an estimated 20 billion dollars worth of gold ...

Remote-controlled cameras offer a first-time glimpse of numerous wrecks entombed in the icy depths off the coast of Bulgaria. This story appear in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic ...