lakes and rivers. It’s the study of ships, cargoes, shipping facilities, and other physical remains. I’ll give you an example, then go on to show how this type of research is being transformed by the use of the latest technology. ...
While Cayman Spirits makes a variety of rums, Seven Fathoms is its super-premium product. A 750ml bottle sells for US$40 at the distillery. Even though it’s touted as a rum for sipping, not mixing, the novel aging process recently prompted Dilbert and Romanica to use Seven Fathoms in t...
The ‘Black Swan’ treasure is one of the most recently discovered treasures. In 2007, a mother lode of silver and gold coins was discovered from the ocean floor nearSpain. It is believed that this treasure belonged to the Spanish ship, ‘Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes,’ however, it is ...
Thunder Bay, an area of northern Lake Huron known for extreme weather and dangerous shoals, has claimed hundreds of ships over the last century. These sunken ships reveal archeological clues about the Great Lakes' commercial shipping past and the water's present health. Scuba diving archaeologists...
(see Fig.7), opposing navies or simply the weather [108, p. 3–4], with an estimated 3,000,000 wrecks waiting to be found globally [46, p. 142]. Once coveted by pirates, today these ships, or rather the cultural objects—in particular treasures—within are subjected to salvage ...
Along the way countless ships and – according to legend – at least one island have been lost, never to be seen again. While no one has yet found the ruins of (the almost certainly fictional) Atlantis, modern scanning, mapping and robotics technology has allowed for a growing tide of ...
The Laser Environmental Airborne Laser Fluorosensor (LEAF) has recently been upgraded in order to improve it's functionality as a real-time response tool i... Carl E. Brown,Robert Nelson,Mervin F. Fingas,... - International Conference on Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing for Mar...
A large number of these sunk, be that as a result of the action of pirates (see Fig. 7), opposing navies or simply the weather [108, p. 3–4], with an estimated 3,000,000 wrecks waiting to be found globally [46, p. 142]. Once coveted by pirates, today these ships, ...
advances in diving technology mean that it is now possible to explore wrecks that have until recently been beyond salvage capabilities, as with the discovery in 1991 of the US Central America - one of the greatest treasure ships ever found - located at 8000 feet and valued at over one billio...
The recently discovered celestial object was likely last seen when Neanderthals walked the Earth, and it won’t show up again for at least another 80,000 years. The once-in-a-lifetime comet will come within about 44 million miles (nearly 71 million kilometers) of our planet on Saturday ...