A team of Tunisian / Italian archaeologists has exhumed, near Nabeul, on the Tunisian coast, the vestiges of Neapolis, a Roman city. For years, archaeologists from the INP National Institute of Tunisian Heritage and the University of Sassari-Oristano in Italy were searching the Gulf of Hammamet, in search of the port of Neapolis. A commercial […]
In 1942, a German team led by an SS made counterfeit notes during a secret operation. Part of this treasure will be found under water years later in a lake of Austria. Operation Bernhard Every year, missions are carried out by individuals or private companies in order to find the secrets of German scientific advances […]
Did you know that underwater photography is as old as the « classic » photography? It’s been more than 160 years that the first pictures were taken underwater. 1. The first underwater photographers 1856 In 1856 William Thompson and Mr Kenyon are the first to build a metallic box in order to protect a camera […]
A 79 year old Japanese scuba diver is friend with a fish for 25 years! No, no, it is not a joke! Hiroyuki Arakawa is the guardian of a Shinto shrine built under water in the seabed of the Chiba area of southern Japan. During his dives he met, 25 years ago, a very weak […]
The humanoid robot Ocean One was discovered by the public during the inauguration of Memory to the Sea exhibit, which was celebrating the 50 years of the french underwater archaelogical. Ocean One’s birth In January 2014, Michel L’hour and Vincent Creuze met Oussama khatib, a robot constructor, who spoke to them about his project of […]
A real passion for the ocean The legendary oceanographer Sylvia Earle was born in 1935 in Gibbstown, New Jersey, USA. This 81-year-old marine biologist, an American explorer, author and lecturer, has dedicated her life to the oceans and continues to communicate her passion. When she was 12, her family moved to Florida, and there, facing […]
Minesweeper diver, a different diving job Soldiers of the Navy, the minesweeper divers tracks down everyday and tirelessly neutralize some of the 300,000 underwater mines. The explosive underwater devices, vestiges of the Second World War, buried in the bottom of the waters are awaiting for a diving hero to come. Those guys also carry out […]
The news is fresh and out of the chest, the wreck found, off the North Carolinan’s shores, is indeed the ship of the famous pirate Blackbeard. It took the expert more than 15 years to be certain. Blackbeard, The most famous pirate Edward Teach or Edward Thatch, nicknamed Blackbeard was a formidable pirate born in […]
Man has always wanted to explore the oceans, but if today new inventions in scuba diving allows us to dive under optimal conditions, this has not always been the case. Here is the list of the most amazing, crazy and strange scuba diving inventions of all time : The diving bell The idea is an […]
Saint-Exupéry the missing aviator July 31 1944, the commander Antoine de Saint-Exupéry gets into his plane, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning. His mission is: take photo over the Grenoble and Annecy to prepare the landing of Provence during the World War 2. Sadly the plane disappeared from radar control at 14:30, close to the côte d’azur. We will […]
Commander Cousteau and his missions Précontinent I, II et III As the whole world want to conquered space, Commander Cousteau is convinced that oceans will be the future of the humanity and decided to colonize the underwater world. His mission Précontinent I In 1962, the first cylindrical underwater house 5 m long and 2.5 m […]
Truk Lagoon is unquestionably the most beautiful place of the world, where wrecks are accessible to every divers including beginners because visibility is excellent and waters are calm and shallow. The fauna and flora are abundant on and around the wrecks and there is a wide variety of sharks that have found a true haven. […]
Today divers from around the world come to Scapa Flow to explore the gigantic wrecks and to rediscover a piece of European history. Armistice and internment of the German fleet Scapa Flow is a natural bay, sheltered from the wind, located in the Orkney Islands North of Scotland. This shelter was used as naval base […]
Here’s a story that will delight diving lovers and history buffs. Shipyard and boat lunch In December 1938, Hitler plus the Field Marshal Goring and Grand Admiral Raeder, as well as a procession of a hundred guests, visited the shipyard in Kiel where the first aircraft of the German army was about to be launched: […]
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