The 1977 steel-hulled freighter was stopped with 27 kilograms of cocaine on it over 10 years ago. The government confiscated ...

In southern Costa Rica, local lore has told of two sunken pirate ships just off the coast in the shallow Caribbean waters. Well, there are sunken ships there, and they do date to the early 1700s. But ...

The bow of a sunken ship poked out of the water of Shipyard Creek. At high tide on May 27, all that could be seen was a sliver of the oxidized vessel, backdropped by the S.C. Ports Authority's Hugh ...

I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known if that was a sign World War II naval battles happened close to America.

The SS United States, once a luxury ocean liner, is being prepared to become an artificial reef off the Florida coast. After failing to repurpose the ship, the SS United States Conservancy sold it to ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch. In ...