3 Shipwreck Stories You Won't Believe

During the night, rising waters shut down the boilers resulting in no lights or power. The following morning, the captain issued the abandon ship order but before passengers could disembark, the ship suddenly split in two resulting in the loss of many lives. Some still believe there is a treasure to be found, and that is why the site remains a popular diving destination. Archaeologists discovered shipwrecks of Roman ships, about 150 meters deep in the seawater, somewhere near the coast of Italy in 2009. These ships were supposedly carrying merchandise like pottery, vases and other cargo. Few wrecks of fluyts have been found, which makes this underwater archaeological find significant.
It took five days for the ship to sink, giving time for some cargo to be retrieved, but Catherine the Great’s paintings were lost at sea. The Vrouw Maria’s fate was forgotten until 1999 when a Finnish expedition discovered the shipwreck at a depth of 41 metres near the island of Jurmo in the Archipelago Sea. The ship is often referred to as the ‘Holy Grail of Great Lake shipwrecks,’ and various teams over the years have searched for it. There was much excitement in 2014 when two treasure hunters claimed to have found the ship, but rather embarrassingly, their discovery turned out to be a steam-powered ship from the 19th or 20th century. Sunken vessels, and the promise of vast treasures within them, have long lured those keen for riches and the glory of discovery.

God told Paul his plan to keep everyone safe, and Paul passed on that encouragement by telling the others on the boat. When we face scary times like Paul did, it’s easy to focus on our fears. But God is always with us, and we can turn to him for encouragement. As the sun rose higher, they saw a beach and thought maybe they could crash the ship into it. But they hit a pile of rocks underwater and crashed the ship too early! The soldiers wanted to kill the prisoners so they wouldn’t swim to shore and escape.
However, that list is never only one item long -- hypothermia, for example, is actually one of the deadliest threats you face in a lifeboat. The first few nights were the roughest -- it was cold out, and I was wet. Then it was way too hot, and I went from all clothes and blankets to no clothes and pouring water over myself to remain cool.

Iida joined the applause when a speaker mentioned the Hiroshima bombing as the catalyst for the war’s end, even though her grandfather’s family lived in the suburbs of Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. Among the guests at this year’s reunion were the daughter and granddaughter of Mochitsura Hashimoto, the Japanese submarine commander who ordered the sinking of the Indianapolis. Survivors of the Indianapolis were taken to a hospital on Guam. Only 317 of the ship’s 1,196 crewmen lived through the ordeal. As last weekend approached, 14 of the 31 remaining survivors gathered here for the 70th anniversary of the incident. It was not lost on the hundreds of family members, friends, and dignitaries in attendance that there may not be a similar gathering on the 75th.
You could luck out and have nothing happen to you, like most people. Or something could go wrong while you’re traveling with a company like  Perama Tours that is completely unprepared for any mishaps. I hear it all the time — “I almost did that trip and your post convinced me not to do it.” And the opposite, on occasion. Since I know the people who actually email me are a small minority, I can only imagine how many people this post has directly affected. I was surprised at how many of my friends, especially Brits, described themselves as “not a strong swimmer” and didn’t go beyond shallow water.

In addition to unaddressed stability issues, the Vestris was overloaded with cargo, which it carried to generate extra income. When the ship encountered a storm on the second day of its voyage, it began listing and taking on water. The situation was dire, but Captain William J. Carey didn’t send out a distress call until the following morning. By the time the evacuation order was issued later that day, the ship was listing so severely that the lifeboats loaded with women and children had to be lowered down from 50 to 60 feet above the water.
Now, a new discovery has been made that also predates his arrival in New Zealand in 1769 – an unknown shipwreck that has been dated to 1705, plus or minus 9 years. With his death, Wild took the ship to Antarctica; but it proved unequal to the task, and after a month spent futilely attempting to penetrate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loKp3CgfpBU the pack, he set a course for Elephant Island. From the safety of the deck, he and his comrades peered through binoculars at the beach where so many of them had lived in fear and hope. The port side of the Endurance, pictured October 19, 1915, shortly before the ship was crushed by pack ice and sank.

The Aida, which served as a transport for Egyptian troops, went to its watery grave in 1957 after unsuccessfully securing its mooring. The Numidia was an English freighter that met its fate in 1901. Both have sections that are intact providing an interesting dive. The  Numidia is approximately 260-feet down and the Aida 100-to 200-feet beneath the surface. The former drug-smuggling ship may not have gone up in smoke but it paid the price for its running when it was towed after experiencing technical difficulties.
Four of the survivors attempted to reach New Zealand by setting off in one of the boats without any navigational equipment—they were never found. The remaining survivors moved to another one of the Auckland Islands where they survived until a passing ship that had seen their signals rescued them in November of 1867. "Curiosity and excitement about the undersea world apply equally to exploration and to searching for shipwrecks," she said. "Many dramatic stories have surfaced about the crew's journeys for help, cannibalism, rescue voyages and rich finds.