When a ship sinks, it is often in tragic circumstances. Beneath the waves, however, a different story unfolds: shipwrecks become the foundations of new life.
The shipwreck of the SS Republic (1865). Experimental deep-sea archaeology. Part 1: Fieldwork & site history / Neil Cunningham Dobson, Ellen Gerth and J. Lange Winckler -- The shipwreck of the SS ...
When researchers first saw the ghostly outline of an ancient hull glowing on their screens, they were looking at a ship so intact that its age seemed almost impossible. The vessel lay far beyond the ...