Issue 39

Wreck Diving Magazine

Uncover the Past with Wreck Diving Magazine

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Remembering Legendary Shipwreck Hunter, John Steele One man succeeded at Great Lakes shipwreck hunting longer than anyone else. John Steele, born the night his parents attended an opera in Chicago in 1926, spent most of his life in and around Milwauk
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Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat Written by Randall Peffer Lost submarines, especially WWII submarines, fascinate me and the expedition team at Wreck Diving Magazine. Our expedition teams have spent a lot of time searching for lost Ger
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The Return to the Ancient Antikythera Shipwreck of Greece
If you hear the words “ancient computer,” what comes to mind? For me, it’s a Commodore 64 – the first “computer” I used about 30 years ago as a young boy to play games and maybe even do a little BASIC programming. But if you’re perhaps of a different
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Shipwrecks At The Top Of The World
Icy, desolate, and rock-bound, the Arctic is notorious for the destruction of ships. The five-century quest for a Northwest Passage to connect Europe to Asia witnessed dozens of expeditions across the top of the world from the 1500s through the early
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Shinkoku Maru – Death from the Night Sky
The sun set on Truk Lagoon on the evening of February 17, 1944. A lumbering, 500-foot-long ship slowly came to a stop in the choppy waters; its anchor let loose from the hawsepipe and slipped below the tropical waters in search of sandy bottom. The w
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The All-Out Battle for Guadalcanal
The first all-out land, air, and sea battle against Japan in World War II helped change the course of the Pacific war for the United States from a series of defensive measures to an aggressive offensive that started pushing back against the Japanese
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HMS King Edward VII - British Bulldog
My eyes finally adjusted to the ambient light as I ascended from the wreck from a depth of 117m/386ft. As I looked down, the shadowed, panoramic picture and sheer, unexpected size of 16,500 tons of pre-dreadnought battleship below me became apparent.
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The Tragic Wreck of the Olive Branch
We mentioned yesterday that a vessel had been lost near the Ducks, and that her name and other circumstances were unknown…. The masters of the [schooners] Huron, Fitzhugh and Augusta all brought the information to port that en route hither they saw a

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