Archaeologists are facing a “race against time” to explore the wreck of an English warship that sank in a huge storm more than 300 years ago. Northumberland was a 70-gun warship built in Bristol, ...

Sunken finds in the South China Sea testify to rich trade networks used over hundreds of years. The sea routes brought ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

After 80 years at the bottom of a remote Pacific lagoon, a sunken Japanese warship has begun to spill its toxic cargo into ...