NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.

"It’s a one-of-a-kind experience you just can’t duplicate." As Trotter contemplates turning over his shipwreck hunting operation to others, his crew is realizing their most recent find — the SS James ...

Last year, he reported another shipwreck, which turned out to be the Grey Eagle, a schooner constructed in 1857 that sank in 1869. The year before that, he came across the Sunshine, a scow schooner ...

A Canadian freighter, the SS James Carruthers, disappeared into Lake Huron’s icy, deep blue waters, until David Trotter and his crew found it.

The cargo schooner sank in 1887 but wasn't discovered until 2025 by a Door County shipwreck enthusiast who's found other wrecks off the Peninsula.

The U.N.'s migration agency reports that at least 68 African migrants have died and 74 others are missing after their boat capsized off Yemen.

Many historic shipwrecks have been found and documented across the United Kingdom in recent years. In Feb. 2024, a teenager found an American Revolution warship on a Scottish beach.

A recent video created on behalf of the Municipality of Karpathos offers a rare glimpse at the six shipwrecks hiding in the ...

Archaeologists from East Carolina University have uncovered four historic shipwrecks along the Cape Fear River, including what may be the remains of La Fortuna, a Spanish ship. “The successful ...

At least 26 people died in a migrant shipwreck on Wednesday off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa and 60 survivors were brought ashore, the coastguard said, warning more bodies could be missing ...