Showing posts with the label Underwater

The Turtle Graveyard of Sipadan

May 22, 2017

Back in the early 1980s, the famous ocean explorer Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau and his team paid a visit to the island of Sipadan, off the...

The Million Dollar Point of Vanuatu

Nov 29, 2016

Located off the coast of Espírito Santo, an island belonging to the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, is a vast undersea junkyard of military...

The Sunken City on Kekova Island

Nov 19, 2016

The ancient Lycian city of Simena, often referred to as Kekova-Simena, once straddled the long and narrow island of Kekova in the Mediterran...

The Sunken City of Baiae

Oct 20, 2016

The ancient Roman city of Baiae, on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, was once a popular coastal resort famous for its idyllic loca...

Warship Graveyard of Chuuk Lagoon

Sep 3, 2016

Under the clear blue waters of Chuuk Atoll in the South Pacific, seven degrees north of the equator, near New Guinea, lies the wreck of a do...

Europe's First Underwater Sculpture Museum

Feb 4, 2016

The island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain, has set up of the first set of sculptures in what will be the first completely underwa...

Underwater Museum at Cape Tarkhankut

Jan 21, 2016

About a hundred meters off the coast at Cape Tarhankut, the westernmost part of Crimea, at a depth of a ten to twelve meters is a unique mus...

The Sunken Pirate City of Port Royal

Feb 25, 2015

Port Royal was a city situated on the end of an 18-mile long sand spit known as the Palisadoes, at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in sou...

The Sunken Cemetery of Camiguin Island

Apr 7, 2014

Camiguin is an island province of the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about 10 kilometers off the northern coast of Mindanao. The isla...

Dean's Blue Hole, World's Deepest Blue Hole

Feb 26, 2014

Dean's Blue Hole near Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas, is the world's deepest known “blue hole” - a term given to any deep, wa...

Silfra: The Crack Between Two Continents

Jul 16, 2013

Located in the Thingvallavatn Lake in the Thingvellir National Park in Iceland, Silfra is part of the Atlantic rift – the dividing line betw...

Winners of Amateur Underwater Photography Contest

Jun 13, 2013

Each spring, the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science organizes an underwater photography contest open...

Neptune Memorial Reef: An Underwater Cemetery

Apr 8, 2013

Originally known as the Atlantis Memorial Reef, the Neptune Memorial Reef is an underwater mausoleum for cremated remains. Located 3.25 mile...

Cancun Underwater Sculpture Museum

Aug 15, 2010

If you want to checkout the new museum at Cancun, Mexico, you will have to don snorkel gear and take dive under the sea, for it’s the world’...