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<title><![CDATA[Lost gold of the Whites found in Baikal]]></title>
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By Andy Potts - The Moscow News
Submarines in the depths of Baikal may have solved one of the great mysteries of the Civil War.The long-lost gold of White commander Alexander Kolchak could be within reach of submersibles exploring the lake as part of a scientific mission.Environmentalists working with the mission told journalists: &ldquo;Deep-sea vehicles found rectangular blocks with a metallic gleam, like gold, 400 meters below the surface.&rdquo;Local residents say that sunken railway wagons...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Archaeologists attack BP’s drilling plans]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Emily Sharpe - The Art Newspaper
From Greek and Roman shipwrecks to 20th-century warships; from ancient streets with intact buildings and mosaics to amphorae and ingots, the Mediterranean is a sub-aqueous treasure trove. So BP&rsquo;s plans to drill exploratory oil wells off Libya has raised serious concerns among archaeologists, historians and heritage preservation organizations.&nbsp;The global energy giant says that it will begin the $900m project to drill five exploratory wells in the Gulf...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 Sep 2010 04:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['I've found Kingsford-Smith's plane': Damien Lay]]></title>
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By&nbsp;Steve Creedy - The Australian
After weathering typhoons, carbon-dioxide poisoning and sceptics, filmmaker Damien Lay is convinced he has found the Lady Southern Cross. Lay is planning to take family members to the site in November for the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of famed Australian aviator Charles Kingsford-Smith.Kingsford-Smith disappeared over the Andaman Sea with co-pilot John Thompson "Tommy" Pethybridge in November 1935, while flying from India to Singapore on his way...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 Sep 2010 03:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sunken ship may contain piece of Bladensburg history]]></title>
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By Daniel Leaderman - Gazette.net
A piece of Bladensburg history may rise again after lying at the bottom of the Patuxent River for two hundred years.Over the next two years, archeologists will work near Upper Marlboro to excavate the wreck of a ship believed to be the USS Scorpion, part of an American flotilla that clashed with the British Navy just prior to the Battle of Bladensburg in the War of 1812, to coincide with the war's upcoming bicentennial."It represents a time capsule of what a...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Divers steal from Holland 5 submarine off Sussex coast]]></title>
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From BBC News
Thieves have targeted a historically important submarine wreck lying in the English Channel, it has emerged.English Heritage said divers stole the torpedo tube hatch of the Holland 5, which sank six miles off Eastbourne in East Sussex in 1912.The theft was discovered during a licensed dive by the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) in June and confirmed during a dive last month.The NAS described the wreck as a "remarkable piece of naval heritage".Sussex Police and English Heritage...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Search is heating up for Bonhomme Richard]]></title>
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By Joe Wojtas - The Day.com
The Ocean Technology Foundation will launch its fifth expedition later this summer to search for the wreck of John Paul Jones' Revolutionary War ship the Bonhomme Richard in the North Sea.The two-week expedition may provide the best chance yet to find the famed ship off the northeast coast of England as the U.S. and French navies are providing state-of-the-art sonar systems, an oceanographic survey ship, a mine hunter, underwater vehicles and divers."This is the latest...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 04:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nautical disaster - First and only city shipwreck recalled]]></title>
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By Cam Fuller - The Star Phoenix
Saskatoon's most famous (OK, and only) shipwreck is finally a film. The Last Steamship, a documentary on the sinking of the S.S. City of Medicine Hat, has its maiden screening on Friday at the Broadway Theatre. "This seems to be a story that so many people don't know about," says director Leanne Schinkel. "You can't imagine a 130- foot steamship on our river." But on June 8, 1908, the opulent ship made quite an impression on the newly encorporated city. High water...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 04:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Efforts to keep clipper ship rejected]]></title>
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By&nbsp;Andy Philip - Times of Malta
A bid to keep the world&rsquo;s oldest passenger clipper ship in Britain was rejected in favour of proposals to send it to Australia. The 145-year-old City of Adelaide, currently resting on a slipway on the west coast of Scotland, faced being broken up for display in a museum.Campaigners from Sunderland, where the ship was built, were told by the Scottish Government that their bid lacked practical detail, but they vowed to fight on. The ship, which predates...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 04:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Titanic wreckage to be raised digitally by new 3D map]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 04:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shipwrecked Madeira to be sold at auction]]></title>
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By Deidre Woollard - Luxist
From the depths of the ocean to your wine cellar. Spectrum Wine Auctions, Southern California's leading auction house of fine and rare wine, will hold its first sale of the fall 2010 auction season on September 24 including a bottle of shipwrecked Madeira wine dating to the 1800s. The bottle, which is estimated at $1200 was discovered off of the Savannah, Georgia coast by professional diver Bill Kinsey in the late 1970s. The lot comes from a collector who bought the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Historic Champagne Cargo Retrieved from Sea Bed]]></title>
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From Yle.fi
A group of Swedish divers have begun lifting to the surface a sunken consignment of champagne dating from the 1700&rsquo;s from the seabed in the &Aring;land Islands. Diving for the liquid treasure of around 80 champagne bottles started last week. The bottles are located in the hull of a vessel that sunk sometime in the eighteenth century. Both the vessel and its cargo of champagne are property of the &Aring;land autonomous region. It has not yet decided what to do with the bottles....]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 03:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russian Mini-Sub Finds Possible Czarist Gold]]></title>
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From VOA News
Russian authorities say a mini-submarine plumbing the depths of Lake Baikal has found several shiny metal objects that could be evidence of the legendary Czarist gold lost nearly a century ago during the country's civil war.Explorers discovered the metal objects - described as resembling gold bullion - 400 meters below Lake Baikal's surface Monday.  Attempts so far, however, to pick up the objects with a mechanical arm have failed.  Explorers have long been hunting for the treasure,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 03:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dark secret of underwater treasure]]></title>
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From RT (first published&nbsp;1st of May, 2010)
After a decade of painstaking underwater searching, the wreck of a Soviet World War II submarine has been found in the Baltic Sea.The vessel went down with its fifty-man crew in 1940 after being sunk by a mine laid by Finland. The relatives of those who died say it is a matter of honor to establish what really happened all those years ago.For seventy years, it was a mystery how, where and even when the S-2 submarine perished. During the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Treasure hunters comb world’s deepest lake]]></title>
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By RT - Prime Time Russia
The Russian Empire's lost gold may be buried at the bottom of Lake Baikal. That is the guess of an underwater research expedition, after it caught sight of something shiny.Expedition members think they may have found the gold that admiral Kolchak seized during the Civil War almost a century ago. This was part of the country's gold reserve and amounted to more than 180 tonnes of gold.All trace of the hoard was lost after a train crash in the region of Lake Baikal....]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Storied Arctic wrecks still missing after summer search]]></title>
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By Randy Boswell - Postmedia News
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Canadian government scientists hoping for a second major Arctic shipwreck discovery this summer came up empty after a six-day search for the Terror and Erebus, the lost vessels of the 19th-century Franklin Expedition.Parks Canada archeologist Ryan Harris, who led July's successful search for the wreck of the HMS Investigator &mdash; one of many British ships sent to look for the Terror and Erebus in the 1850s &mdash; said Monday a 150-square-kilometre...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Could a Sunken WWII Tanker Leak Oil ?]]></title>
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By Pete Hardie - Santa Barbara Independent
Researchers hope to use sonar images of the SS Montebello to determine if the sunken vessel could leak oil. The Montebello Assessment Task Force sent a robotic submersible down to the wreck &mdash; which lies seven miles off California&rsquo;s coast, near Cambria &mdash; last week. The vessel&rsquo;s tanks are presumed to still contain the three million gallons of Santa Maria crude oil that were loaded before its departure in December 1941.The SS Montebello...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Representatives of Regina-based Droycon Bioconcepts diving to study the Titanic]]></title>
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By Doyle Fox - Leader Post
Lori Johnston and Sean Frisky won't be looking for the fictional necklace named "The Heart of the Ocean" when they dive down in a midget submersible vehicle to see the legendary British ocean liner Titanic in September.No, Johnston and Frisky will be representing Regina-based Droycon Bioconcepts and studying the bacteria and other contributing factors to the degradation of the Titanic."Most of the wrecks I've studied, including the Titanic, are designated graveyards,"...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Work Under Way To Restore Muskogee's USS Batfish]]></title>
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By Lacie Lowry - The News On 6
A massive restoration project is under way in Muskogee on a true war hero. The USS Batfish is a World War II submarine that's highly decorated with military honors, but her condition has highly deteriorated over the years.A group of Active Duty and Reserve Chief Petty Officers of the United States Navy spent Saturday painting the USS Batfish black, restoring the submarine to her glory days of World War II."It amazes me how many people don't realize we have a sub...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Crock pot of gold]]></title>
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By Marilyn Ong - &nbsp;The Star
Sunken treasures ! The very words conjure up dazzling visions of romance and adventure on the high seas. Professor Augustine Vinh speaks on the perils of collecting sunken treasures.Internationally acclaimed sunken treasure hunter and collector Professor Augustine Vinh does not at all comply with one&rsquo;s image of a treasure hunter &mdash; deeply-tanned and with rock solid physique.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t dive nor scour the sea beds, picking up centuries-old porcelain...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Treasure hunter plans to salvage mercury from wreck]]></title>
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By Edward D. Murphy &nbsp;- Kennebec Journal
Treasure hunter Greg Brooks, who led a trouble-plagued relief mission to Haiti last winter, has set his sights on a salvage job with both business and humanitarian components.Brooks, who is from Gorham, wants to put his sea salvage skills to work removing an estimated 16,000 pounds of valuable mercury from a 66-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Maine. He contends the mission would defuse a ticking environmental time bomb, though scientists have concluded...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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