Shipwreck
Santorini wreck a ticking time bomb, residents warn
The wreck of a cruise ship, which ran aground near the popular tourist destination of Santorini in April 2007 and sank the next day, has remained an ecological bomb at the bottom of the island's caldera, according to the coordinating committee of the Santorini Association for the Salvaging of the Sea Diamond Wreck in a letter it sent to Parliament's Special Standing Committee for Environmental
Divers find shipwreck in Black Sea amid cleanup works
Members of the Black Sea Divers Sports Club stumbled upon the wreckage of a steamship at a depth of 50 meters, measuring approximately 100 meters in length, while conducting a dive to clean up ghost nets in the Black Sea.
A staggering 30,000+ ancient coins found off Sardinia’s shore, hinting at shipwreck
Shipwreck spoils?
Raptor freighter: Red flags uncovered in wake of shipwreck
New details are surfacing about the shipwreck of the Raptor freighter vessel, which sank off the coast of Lesvos on Sunday. With one confirmed fatality, one survivor, and 12 crew members still missing, indications point to the vessel being blacklisted by the Port State Control (PSC) regimes of the Paris MOU and the Black Sea MOU.
Marine teams discover 1,700-year-old shipwreck
Marine police teams have discovered a sunken ship believed to be around 1,700 years old off the coast of the northwestern province of Yalova while they were engaged in diving practice.
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İzmir’s sunken ships waiting to be discovered
Sunken ships buried in the Gulf of İzmir during war, collision or malfunction are waiting to be discovered.
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Families of missing in Greece migrant boat disaster plead for recovery of bodies
Since Matloob Hussain from Pakistan went missing during a deadly shipwreck off Greece last month, his brother Adil has left the door of his Athens home open in the hope he appears. It will stay open until his body is found.
Türkiye’s underwater archaeological map underway
Turkish scientist Professor Cemal Pulak announced at a recent symposium that works have been carried out to make Türkiye's underwater archaeological map and said the information cannot be shared openly due to the risk of looting.
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Political friction over shipwreck
The tragic shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece on Wednesday, with dozens of deaths and hundreds missing, has become a source of confrontation between the country's caretaker government and leftist SYRIZA, which referred to "unanswered questions" in relation to the management of one the Mediterranean's worst tragedies of its kind.
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Europol asked to help smash ring behind deadly migrant boat sinking
The same human trafficking ring responsible for Wednesday's shipwreck off Pylos in southern Greece had ferried people from Libya to Italy 18 times in two months, according to reports.
Europol's assistance has already been sought to dismantle the ring.