Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

Wrecks From Infamous 19th Century Whaling ‘Disaster’ Discovered Off Alaska Coast

January 8, 2016 —by Blake de Pastino 8290 6

With help from both new technology and global warming, archaeologists have discovered the site of The Whaling Disaster of 1871 — one of the worst debacles in the history of American whale-hunting — off the coast of Alaska.

20th Century

‘Forgotten Casualty’ of Pearl Harbor Attack Revealed Off Coast of Hawaii

December 7, 2015 —by Blake de Pastino 5840 0

Archaeologists in Hawaii have documented, for the first time, one of the first casualties of the attack on Pearl Harbor 74 years ago.

20th Century

Sunken WWII Ship, Famed for Pearl Harbor Rescue Mission, Discovered Off Hawaii Coast

December 7, 2014 —by Blake de Pastino 8238 0

Archaeologists exploring the ocean depths just off the coast of Oahu have discovered, intact, the sunken vessel that carried out a gripping rescue mission on December 7, 1941 — sailing…

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Wrecks From Infamous 19th Century Whaling ‘Disaster’ Discovered Off Alaska Coast

‘Forgotten Casualty’ of Pearl Harbor Attack Revealed Off Coast of Hawaii

Sunken WWII Ship, Famed for Pearl Harbor Rescue Mission, Discovered Off Hawaii Coast

700,000-Year-Old Horse Found in Yukon Permafrost Yields Oldest DNA Ever Decoded

Wyoming Wildfire Reveals ‘Massive’ Shoshone Camp, Thousands of Artifacts

16,000-Year-Old Tools Discovered in Texas, Among the Oldest Found in the West

New Dinosaur Found in Montana Reveals Tyrannosaurs’ True Face (They Didn’t Have Lips)

At 50, Ring-Tab Beer Cans Are Now Officially Historic Artifacts

First-Ever Fossil Poop Excavated From L.A.’s La Brea Tar Pits

New Feathered Dinosaur From New Mexico Was Among the ‘Last of the Raptors’

America’s Earliest Traces of Potato Use Found at 10,900-Year-Old Utah Shelter

Rock Art in Chaco Canyon May Depict Ancient Solar Eclipse, Experts Say

World’s Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur, a ‘Mona Lisa’ of Fossils, Found in Alberta