PRECIOUS OLD NEWS II (Dec. 2005 - May 2008)
A selection of old news and articles on Shipwrecks,
Underwater Archaeology,
Treasure recoveries &tc...
(regularly updated... More than 300 exclusive stories
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(Part II)
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André Galerne, 81, an Entrepreneur of the Deep, Is Dead - May 2008
Own your share of wartime gold - April 2008
In Quest of Treasure - April 2008
J. Steffy, dead at 83: made shipwreck analysis scientific - Dec. 2007
7 Missing Wonders - Nov. 2007
Treasure Hunters Break Scuba Rules for $50 Million - Nov. 2007
Baltic yields "perfect" shipwreck - Nov. 2007
Search for Bonhomme Richard continues - Nov. 2007
Booty Call - Nov. 2007
Sunken treasure "overvalued to lift shares of salvage firm" - Nov. 2007
DNA shows ancient ship carried olive oil, oregano - Nov. 2007
Mapping of seabed to locate lost war aircraft - Nov. 2007
Levin backs shipwreck haven - Nov. 2007
Rough seas may stir up shipwreck artifacts - Nov. 2007
Shipwrecks, sunken city lure divers to Turkey's coast - Nov. 2007
Divers find plane, ending 50-year mystery - Nov. 2007
UK researcher wants share of pieces of eight - Oct. 2007
Spain takes war with US firm over treasure out of sea - Oct. 2007
Divers take the plunge - Oct. 2007
Mary Rose 'at risk of being lost' - Oct. 2007
Mediaeval artefacts in German lake - Sept. 2007
Century-old shipwreck discovered - Sept. 2007
Cyprus to seek ancient shipwrecks - Sept. 2007
Builder found Vikings washed up at pub - Sept. 2007
Spain claims sunken Inca treasure ship and so do the Incas - Sept. 2007
China's ancient sunken ship to be hoisted out of water - Sept. 2007
From the high seas to the Leith gallows - Aug. 2007
Treasure hunt sparks legal battle between Spain and finder - Aug. 2007
U-boat: council plans to put Nazi sub in maritime museum - Aug. 2007
$5m for Sydney search - Aug. 2007
Ancient wreck site 'sabotaged' - Aug. 2007
Stone Age Settlement Found Under English Channel - Aug. 2007
Fight on to save Stone Age Atlantis - Aug. 2007
Mary Rose fights the acid reign of bacteria - Aug. 2007
Dover Strait U-boat to be moved - Aug. 2007
Archaeology - on land and sea - July 2007
Ninety years on, S.A salutes 600 men left to drown in Channel - July 2007
Reading shipwreck ceramics - July 2007
Insider: Profiteers on the High Seas - July 2007
Closing in on mystery - June 2007
Stop, that’s our treasure, Spain tells Britain - June 2007
Chinese find shipwreck laden with Ming porcelain - June 2007
Sunken treasure could be a costly find - June 2007
Czechoslovakia's biggest disinformation operation - June 2007
National Geographic Real Pirates Exhibition - June 2007
Fragmentary Knowledge, First computer ever ? - May 2007
Row over shipwreck treasure deepens Spain versus OMR - May 2007
John Edwards Stakes His Claim on Pirate Booty - May 2007
The men who risk all for sunken treasure - May 2007
Archaeological Experiment Requires a Sail Back in Time - May 2007
Sunken Treasure, Mint Condition - May 2007
Revealed: a newly sunken Mary Rose - May 2007
Yo-ho-ho: Shipwreck company shareholders find treasure - May 2007
Cutty Sark fire may have been arson - May 2007
Texas A&M researchers attempt deepest effort recovery in gulf - May 2007
"Steel box" sails off to salvage ancient ship - May 2007
History-making sunken ship salvage - May 2007
Ancient ceramics discovered off Xisha Islands 2- May 2007
Surveys Launched to Trace Malabar’s Maritime History - May 2007
Spanish government 'suspicious' of deep-sea treasure find - May 2007
Lost world warning from North Sea - Apr. 2007
Tracking Nazi gold-hunter - Apr. 2007
"Unique" shipwreck found near Stockholm - March 2007
British wreck could yield $1bn in treasure - March 2007
Clues linking Indian, Roman civilisations found - March 2007
Sunken Ship Believed to Be Blackbeard's - March 2007
Duke launches treasure hunt for Spanish Armada gold - Feb. 2007
Five-year ban on shipwreck diving lifted - Jan. 2007
Persian Gulf Shipwreck Continues to Remain a Mystery - Oct. 2006
Archaeology Beneath the Sea in the Philippines - Sept. 2006
Shipwreck discovery sets off international storm - Sept. 2006
Budget Drawn for Persian Gulf Shipwreck Excavation - Sept. 2006
Treasure trove row over 200-year wreck - Sept. 2006
Undersea search turns up China, pottery in Makung - Sept. 2006
$10 Million Gold Rush-era & Billion Dollar Treasury Displays - Sept. 2006
Exhibition of shipwreck relics begins in Can Tho Museum - August 2006
Lake Erie shipwreck's bell raised - August 2006
Is it Still Possible to Find a Pirates Gold ? - August 2006
Researchers To Stream Video of Century-Old Shipwreck - July 2006
Murky history of the sunken Endeavour - June 2006
Giant squids terrify divers looking for drowned treasures - Apr. 2006
Indonesia seizes ships, arrest divers with sunken treasure - March 2006
Medieval Shipwreck Found in Sweden - March 2006
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Maps Ancient Greek Shipwreck - Feb. 2006
The Flor do Mar - 1511, An Early Epilogue of the Lost Ship - Feb. 2006
Hudson River shipwrecks contaminated - Feb. 2006
Greece's seas: the looters' next destination - Dec. 2005