shipwreck Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/shipwreck/ Mechanically-minded travel Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:18:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Virtual Reality tour of a WWII Japanese submarine wreck released on the 80th anniversary of her sinking https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/virtual-reality-tour-of-a-wwii-japanese-submarine-wreck-released-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-her-sinking/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/virtual-reality-tour-of-a-wwii-japanese-submarine-wreck-released-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-her-sinking/#respond Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:00:19 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7250 I-124 was a WWII Japanese submarine that was sunk with all hands (80 crew) by Allied forces on 20 Jan 1942 while on a mine-laying mission in the Beagle Gulf, Australia. She lies in 46 metres (150 ft) of water, 84 kilometres north-west of Darwin, NT. In anticipation of tomorrow’s 80th anniversary, in October 2021 […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/virtual-reality-tour-of-a-wwii-japanese-submarine-wreck-released-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-her-sinking/feed/ 0 Elaborate plan to recover the historic Marconi radio from RMS Titanic https://mechtraveller.com/2020/07/elaborate-plan-to-recover-the-historic-marconi-radio-from-rms-titanic/ https://mechtraveller.com/2020/07/elaborate-plan-to-recover-the-historic-marconi-radio-from-rms-titanic/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:04:40 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6194 RMS Titanic, Inc (RMST), the company that has been recovering artifacts from the wreck of the Titanic since 1987, says it plans to make a ninth dive to the wreck in 2021, in a bid to recover the Marconi Wireless Telegraph from the Titanic’s radio room. The attempt will require some sophisticated undersea engineering using […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2020/07/elaborate-plan-to-recover-the-historic-marconi-radio-from-rms-titanic/feed/ 5 Expedition Cruise Finds 116 Year Old Whaling Ship Wreck https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/expedition-cruise-finds-116-year-old-whaling-ship-wreck/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/expedition-cruise-finds-116-year-old-whaling-ship-wreck/#respond Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:31:23 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3663 Canadian expedition cruise company, One Ocean Expeditions (OOE) in collaboration with The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) has helped to find the Nova Zembla, a Scottish whaling ship that was wrecked near Buchan Gulf off the coast of Baffin Island in 1902. Dr. Matthew Ayre and Dr. Michael Moloney, from the Arctic Institute of North […]

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