Shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea fascinate not only divers but also those intrigued by the legends of hidden treasures inside these sunken vessels. However, some are a headache for environmentalists ...

The Baltic Sea’s potential wealth of well-preserved wrecks makes it the home of “the best diving in the world,” says Douglas. Dahm and Douglas first met in the late 1990s through mutual ...

The Baltic Sea holds many well-preserved shipwrecks, including a 17th-century wreck recently found in Lübeck, due to unique environmental conditions.

A SUNKEN British warship is a “ticking timebomb” that will unleash “catastrophic damage” unless action is taken, experts have ...

Baltic Sea shipwreck from 19th century found with 'more than 100 bottles of Champagne' A 19th century shipwreck found last week in the Baltic Sea, loaded with Champagne, wine and mineral water ...

According to the firm’s website, Stachura is “one of the most active wreck divers in the Baltic Sea,” who has “taken thousands of underwater pictures of Baltic wrecks.”Nevertheless, this ...

A nearly £800,000 contract has been awarded by the Ministry of Defence for a detailed wreck survey of HMS Cassandra, a ...

A discovery made in 2011 by Swedish explorers has been at the heart of one of the most fascinating deep-sea mysteries. While searching for treasure, Peter Lindberg and Denis Asberg stumbled upon an ...

Now, a British mission will investigate the wreck, as part of an effort to tackle some 8,500 sunken ships that are ...

The wreck itself is hardly novel: Some 100,000 sunken ships dot the Baltic seabed, said Jim Hansson, a maritime archaeologist at the Vrak Museum of Wrecks in Sweden. But finding Champagne would be ...

A further source of pollution in the Baltic Sea is rotting at the bottom of its waters, subject to corrosion: 40,000 metric tons of chemical weapons, including 15,000 metric tons of toxic agents ...

Plunging into the icy waters surrounding Scandinavia, divers Jonas Dahm and Carl Douglas search for vessels claimed by the deep, what they call the “ghost ships” of the Baltic Sea.