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
Meet the Camarat 4, the deepest shipwreck ever discovered in French waters. This remarkably preserved 16th-century merchant vessel sat undisturbed off the coast of St. Tropez for 500 years before the French Navy stumbled onto it by accident during a routine sonar mission. On this episode of “Hot Take with Jesse Weber,” we take a deeper dive into one of the most extraordinary underwater discoveries in years and bring in Dr. Tracy Fanara to help unravel the mysteries still surrounding it.
Meet the Camarat 4, the deepest shipwreck ever discovered in French waters. This remarkably preserved 16th-century merchant vessel sat undisturbed off the coast of St. Tropez for 500 years before the French Navy stumbled onto it by accident during a routine sonar mission. On this episode of “Hot Take with Jesse Weber,” we take a deeper dive into one of the most extraordinary underwater discoveries in years and bring in Dr. Tracy Fanara to help unravel the mysteries still surrounding it.
Tonight on "Jesse Weber Live": The child safety trial against Meta kicked off in federal court. Not only are more than $1 trillion in damages at stake, but Meta could also be forced to make sweeping changes to its platforms. Jesse speaks with a mother who lost her daughter and has a powerful message for Meta. Plus, forensic death investigator Joseph Scott Morgan joins the show to discuss the autopsy photos of Tupac Shakur shown to jurors in open court. What did we learn from Day 2 of the murder trial? And a mystery of a different kind: A 500-year-old shipwreck is being investigated at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. What have explorers discovered? Jesse speaks with an oceanographer who has led expeditions to the Titanic. This…
An Italian merchant vessel from the 16th century has been discovered on the French seafloor more than 8,000 feet down. Oceanographer Dr. David Gallo joins “Jesse Weber Live” to talk about the well-preserved wreckage and what may have happened. “Could have been just (a) storm, it could have been piracy. It was the age when everything was going on in that part of the world,” he says. #Science #StrangeNews #History "Jesse Weber Live" brings a fresh, fast-paced, and often unexpected take on the day’s headlines, diving into the biggest stories through the lens of legal expertise.
The USS Benfold lost power from July 24 to July 28 and was towed to the Philippines where power was restored. During those four days, the ship lost its air conditioning, galleys, toilets and showers.
Meet the Camarat 4, the deepest shipwreck ever discovered in French waters. This remarkably preserved 16th-century merchant vessel sat undisturbed off the coast of St. Tropez for 500 years before the French Navy stumbled onto it by accident during a routine sonar mission. On this episode of “Hot Take with Jesse Weber,” we take a deeper dive into one of the most extraordinary underwater discoveries in years and bring in Dr. Tracy Fanara to help unravel the mysteries still surrounding it.
Hundreds of ancient amphorae were found piled up about 150 feet underwater, suggesting the relics came from a Roman shipwreck from about 2,000 years ago.
