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AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Divers find HMS Tiger off the Isle of Wight, solving a 118-year-old Royal Navy mystery

A British dive team spent five years combing archives to locate the wreck of HMS Tiger, a Royal Navy warship that sank in 1908 and killed more than half its crew, and the discovery is now driving new legislation to protect military shipwrecks. ProjectXplore, a volunteer dive group led by organizers Leo Fielding and Dan […] The post Divers find HMS Tiger off the Isle of Wight, solving a 118-year-old Royal Navy mystery appeared first on American Almanac .

A British dive team spent five years combing archives to locate the wreck of HMS Tiger, a Royal Navy warship that sank in 1908 and killed more than half its crew, and the discovery is now driving new legislation to protect military shipwrecks. ProjectXplore, a volunteer dive group led by organizers Leo Fielding and Dan McMullen, announced on August 10 that it had found the remains of HMS Tiger on the seabed off the Isle of Wight, the same stretch of English Channel where the warship went down after colliding with the 10,000-ton HMS Berwick 118 years ago. More than half of the ship's 57 crew members died in the 1908 sinking. The team laid a wreath on the wreck site, a gesture of respect for the sailors still resting there. Fielding and…Open

ABCNEWS - Villager rescued from Laos cave, divers go back for others trapped

As divers continue their search for the people trapped inside a Laos cave for 10 days, rescue crews began their operation Friday to get the five other trapped victims.

ABCNEWS - WATCH: Video shows harrowing effort to rescue victims from flooded cave

Five people were located alive yesterday, but rescue divers say getting them out will not be easy as crews search for two remaining miners trapped in a flooded cave in Laos.

ABCNEWS - WATCH: Coast Guard wants to send US divers to Bahamas in Lynette Hooker search

The Coast Guard Investigative Service is preparing to ask the Bahamas for permission to send in U.S divers to search new areas in the ongoing search for Lynette Hooker.

ABCNEWS - Divers will try to recover 2 of the dead Italians from an Maldives underwater cave

Three Finnish divers will attempt to recover the bodies of two of the four Italians who died deep inside an underwater cave in an atoll in the Maldives

NYTIMES (Ali Watkins) - Bodies of Four Italian Divers Found in Maldives Cave

The discovery comes after days of searching by an international team of rescue divers. A fifth body was recovered last week.

NYTIMES (Lynsey Chutel and Josephine de La Bruyère) - Five Italians Die While Scuba Diving Deep Caves in the Maldives

The divers, including a marine scientist and her daughter, were part of a research trip and were exploring an underwater cave system when they failed to resurface.

ABCNEWS - Search in waters off the Maldives after 5 Italians killed in a cave dive accident

An Italian expert has joined police divers and rescue vessels in the Maldives for searches after the death of five Italian divers in a scuba accident