Perhaps the best single source for researching Civil War shipwrecks is a set of books titled The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. These records include official correspondence, dispatches, excerpts from vessel logs, etc. and are an excellent source of contemporary records relating to shipwrecks. These wrecks range from powerful ironclad warships to flimsy merchant steamers. It was by using these records that Dr. E. Lee Spence located numerous ...
DIVE IN > > > ShareInterested in Shipwrecks and sunken treasure? The salvage of the remaining gold on the side-wheel steamer Central America may finally resume in 2014 after a lapse of over 20 years that was caused largely by legal problems. Her loss with tons of gold and hundreds of people in 1857 was one of the worst maritime disasters of the Gold Rush era.
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DEMA Show 2013
Posted by: Dr. E. Lee Spence
The Diving Equipment and Marketing Association Expo is an annual, trade-only event for the Diving Industry. The 2013 DEMA Show is being held in Orlando, November 6-9. If you are a dive shop owner, dive tour operator, manufacturer, dive service provider, or virtually anyone else in the diving industry, you really need to attend.
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Shipwrecks.com Website
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Shipwrecks.com is the world’s longest running website devoted primarily to shipwrecks past and present. We have been posting about shipwreck research, expeditions, diving, underwater archaeology and treasure salvage since the internet first went public, which is exactly how we were able to get the domain name shipwrecks.com, before it was grabbed by anyone else.
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Sea Research Society
Posted by: Dr. E. Lee Spence
Sea Research Society has been doing shipwreck expeditions every year for over 40 years. Projects have included wrecks such as the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the Confederate blockade runners Georgiana, Mary Bowers and Constance, the Great Lakes freighter Regina, and steamer DIVE IN > > > Share
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A boat with around 500 illegal migrants burned and sank between Tunisia and Sicily on October 3, 2013. Hundreds of men, women and children drowned. Most of them were illegal migrants fleeing religious and political persecution in Eritrea and Somalia.
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