Law of the sea

The British liner S.S. ARCADIAN, torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk during World War I, taking 279 people with it, was discovered by researcher Kostas Thoctarides and his team southeast of Sifnos at a depth of 163 meters.

The Greek Ministry of National Defense sent a strong and clear response to the Ministry of Defense of Turkey regarding yesterday’s reports that mentioned “respect” on our part “for their maritime jurisdiction and cooperation” in light of the events in Kasos and Karpathos.

Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, in an interview with Real FM on Thursday, refuted the Turkish claim that Athens has accepted Turkey's expansionist demands in the southern Aegean following this week's incident.

Under the surveillance of units from both the Greek and Turkish Navies, the Italian ship “Teliri” is laying fiber optic cables within the potential Greek Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf.

Athens is on standby to avoid unnecessary midsummer tensions as the Turkish Navy monitors the movements of the Italian ship Teliri, which is carrying out submarine fiber-optic cable laying work within the potential Greek exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental shelf.

The Turkish Navy is keeping a close eye on the work of the Italian vessel Teliri, which is to lay telecommunication cables within Cyprus' exclusive economic zone (EEZ) that will stretch to Greece and then to Italy. The vessel, which is expected to sail into a potential Greek EEZ in July, is sailing southwest of Cyprus under discreet surveillance by the Turkish Navy corvette Bartin.

This area has been unilaterally and arbitrarily declared to the UN with the well-known Turkish letters as the Turkish EEZ - Turkey yesterday issued another NAVTEX with which it stood against Cyprus

Such shipwrecks are incredibly rare, with only two other cargo-bearing wrecks from the late Bronze Age discovered in the Mediterranean

Desperate hands clutched at Ali Elwan's arms, legs and neck, and screams misted his ears, as he spat out saltwater and fought for three hours to keep afloat in the night, dozens of miles from land.

Although a poor swimmer, he lived — one of just 104 survivors from the wreck of a dilapidated old metal fishing boat smuggling up to 750 migrants from North Africa to Europe.

Nine Egyptian men cleared by a Greek court of involvement in a migrant shipwreck disaster remain unfairly held in administrative detention days after they were freed from jail, their lawyers said Monday.

A judge in the southern town of Nafplio on Tuesday is expected to hear a legal appeal for their release, the lawyers told a press conference in Athens.