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X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005
It was one of those highly unlikely chains of unforeseable events that led us to Elba the pictoresque but somewhat mislaid lump of land in the Meditterean made famous by emperor Napoleon’s exile here: The fact that the treasureship Polluce was finally being excavated. As our regular readers may recall from our previous issue this is where the treasureship Pulluce sank to the bottom in 1841. The official excavation is finally under way coinciding with our attandence so this was a once-in-a-life time opportunity not to be missed. And here we are on a - rather uncharming I must say - barge with a huge crane, a lot of commercial diving equipment, a decompression chamber and lots of pressure tanks.. It is a truly big set-up. I am couple of containers the dive tenders have their command center from where they are in constant contact with the divers below. -
X-Ray Mag #08 - Dec 2005
German ocean liner General von Steuben was torpedoed by a Russian submarine in 1945 taking thousands of refugees fleeing the advancing Red army with her to the bottom. She now rests at 72 meters in the Baltic Sea making it one of the most impressive Baltic wrecks and daunting technical dives. -
X-Ray Mag #07 - Oct 2005
Like every grand tale of shipwreck and lost treasure, the story about the Polluce has it all. A paddlewheel steamboat shipwrecked in 1841, it is the centrepiece of a drama spanning more than one and a half centuries and has all the necessary ingredients: drama and tragedy, greed and crime, passion and politics. And it is still ongoing. Polluce is about to be excavated once more as this story goes to press. -
X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005
WW2 |The port of Narvik in north Norway was established around the export of iron-ore from Sweden. This was due to the very good harbour and its ice-free conditions. At the outbreak of World War II, Narvik was a strategically important harbour, and during the first few days of the war a very intense battle was fought out here between German, Norwegian and British naval forces. During this fighting several ships were sunk, both warships and civil merchant ships. Narvik harbour was transformed into a great ship cemetery, with wrecks sticking up out of the water everywhere. Several of the ships were later salvaged, but many wrecks still remained. With its high density of wrecks, Narvik is an eldorado for wreck divers. -
X-Ray Mag #05 - Jun 2005
WW2 |Now laying 25 miles off Malin Head, time stands still for this very impressive war machine. Rammed and sunk by HMS Roxburgh, all lives were lost on board the U-89.► -
X-Ray Mag #03 - Feb 2005
ADMAT is back in action, this time in the Philippines where we have organised a maritime archaeological survey-training project in a beautiful and historically significant area. BSAC, the British Sub Aqua Club, have asked us to run this as an expedition, which we are, but as it is an ADMAT project it is open to all as usual.
Also in the archives ...
 If the names Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville sound familiar that's because they had a major find last year - the British Warship HMS Ontario. Now they've found a schooner - the C. Reeve.
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 A freighter heading to an Israeli port sank in stormy weather in international waters near the Lebanese coast, and six of its 12 crew members were rescued
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Divers are being warned to treat a wrecked warship and official war grave of 75 crewmen with utmost respect.
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 The remains of a sunken 17th or 18th century galleon have been found by a fisherman in Fornells, on the north coast of the island of Menorca, Spain.
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 When a lion figurehead was found imbedded in the bottom sediment next to the sensational well-preserved 17th century wreck
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Liners |
On behalf of Douglas J. Faulkner Woolley, owner of rights to RMS Titanic and Queen Elizabeth (Seawise University)
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 Pavlopetri
The world’s oldest submerged town is again under the scrutiny of a team of British and Greek archeologists, who are struggling to preserve it.
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 The 138 metre guided-missile frigate acquired by Victoria in 2006 will now become a much sought-after dive site
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Wreck hunters say they have found and identified the wreck of a T-33 fighter jet that disappeared into the Pacific Ocean nearly 54 years ago.
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 Gold Jewelry Intended to Protect Religious Relic
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