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Shipwrecked

A series from Guardian Seascape on how new technology is revealing a fascinating world of 3m lost vessels under the waves – exploring what they teach us about our lust for treasure, our cultural heritage and the future of our ocean in a heating climate

12 June 2024

  • Black and white image of two people watching a ship sinking in the sea

    Wreck of Shackleton’s ship Quest found, last link to ‘heroic age of Antarctic exploration’

    The vessel, which sank off the coast of Canada in 1962, was used by the explorer on his final voyage to the continent

18 March 2024

  • The San José was traveling to Europe with treasures to fund the war of the Spanish succession when it was sunk by the British off the coast of Colombia.

    ‘Holy grail of shipwrecks’: recovery of 18th-century Spanish ship could begin in April

    The San José, sunk in 1708, has been at the center of a dispute over who has rights to the wreck, including $17bn in booty

1 August 2023

  • Coastguard divers have been recording the contents of the 17th-century Bodekull shipwreck to compare with previous recordings to check whether objects have gone missing.

    ‘It’s a Baltic problem’: the Swedish coastguards saving shipwrecks from looters

    Objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships

1 March 2023

  • In this image taken from video provided by the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the bow of the Ironton is seen in Lake Huron off Michigan's east coast in a June 2021 photo. Searchers have found the long-lost Great Lakes ship that came to a tragic end. Officials with the sanctuary in Alpena, Mich,, say they've located the Ironton, a freight schooner that plunged to the bottom of Lake Huron in 1894. The Ironton collided with another vessel in rough seas. Reports at the time said the seven-member crew scrambled into a lifeboat but it was tethered to the ship and pulled down. Five crewmen died. (Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary via AP)

    Long-lost Lake Huron shipwreck with lifeboat attached confirms tragic tale

    Cargo vessel the Ironton sank in 1894 killing five but has been rediscovered ‘remarkably preserved’ in cold waters off Michigan

13 January 2023

  • A diver exploring a shipwreck

    New photography techniques reveal the Baltic’s eerie wrecks – in pictures

    Tens of thousands of ships from every era lie undisturbed at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Some of the world’s most advanced underwater photography now reveals how miraculously the cold, brackish water has preserved them

12 January 2023

  • The Britannic, Titanic, and Bismark all meet their simulated ends, including getting struck by lightning.

    ‘Uh oh … boom!’: TikTok is in love with simulated shipwrecks

    Fans say the use of an accurate physics engine to reimagine historic shipwrecks makes it ‘difficult to look away’

11 January 2023

  • The Golden Ray, a 656-foot vehicle carrier capsized in St Simons Sound, near Brunswick, Georgia

    What happens when a huge ship sinks? A step-by-step guide to averting disaster

    From the Ever Given blocking the Suez, to the Costa Concordia cruise ship hitting a reef, what exactly do you do when a vessel comes to grief – and how do you prevent catastrophic pollution?

10 January 2023

  • A boat crew during a trip to check on the wreck of what is believed to be a 17th century Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship in Mentawai Islands, Indonesia.

    ‘Almost at war’: shipwreck hunters battle it out for sunken treasure

  • A fishermans boat abandoned about 50 years ago in the Venitian lagoon.

    Venice’s lagoon of 2,000 lost boats: the true cost of dumping small vessels

9 January 2023

  • The wreck of former cruise ship Mediterranean Sky at Eleusis in Greece.

    ‘A race against time’: how shipwrecks hold clues to humanity’s future

    New revelations about the 3m vessels scattered across the ocean floor, from Titanic to Shackleton’s Endurance to the slave ship Clotilda, are not only rewriting our history but could determine our survival

8 January 2023

  • The São José sank off Cape Town, South Africa, in December 1794, killing 212 enslaved people.

    ‘A search for ourselves’: shipwreck becomes focus of slavery debate

    Vessel that sank with more than 200 transported people onboard is being used to humanise the story of slavery
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