Years after the events occurred, sunken ships from the Second World War are still making the news.
7 April 2025
Soviet World War II-Era Submarine Discovered Off Russia’s Pacific Coast, MSN. Not on the map yet.
4 April 2025
New Underwater Exploration of Attu’s World War II Shipwrecks, The National WWII Museum, New Orleans
2 February 2025
Vital de Oliveiro, sunk 20 July 1944, has been discovered off the coast of Brazil: Mystery over World War Two ship torpedoed by Nazi Germany finally solved
11 November 2024
The Guardian writes about the discovery of the USS Edsall, sunk on 1 March 1942.
20 October 2024
60 Minutes covers the story about the tragic sinking of the Cap Arcona shortly before the war’s end.
6 October 2024
Wreck of the British submarine Trooper discovered in the Icarian Sea in protothema.gr
28 September 2024
Brazil: Illegal salvage from Nazi ships poses oil threat in DW
21 August 2024
Three Shipwrecks From World War II’s Battle Of Attu Discovered Off The Coast Of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands ati
7 August 2024
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Battle of Attu, the ‘Forgotten Battle’ of World War II: Underwater archaeologists discovered three shipwrecks submerged near the small Alaskan island, which was the site of one of the deadliest conflicts in the Pacific in Smithsonian Magazine
7 August 2024
After 80 years, Nazi ships see light of day: Removal of sunken German fleet from Danube in Serbia has begun (Telegraf.rs). This is a challenge to map as there seem to be no names or mapped locations, even though there are 200 vessels that were sunk.
4 July 2024
Chinese Ship Suspected of Raiding World War II Wrecks Detained (USNI News)
23 May 2024
USS Harder wreck site discovered off the west coast of Luzon (Naval History & Heritage Command)
24 November 2023
Wreck of the USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) discovered: Sunken World War II carrier resting place identified 78 years later (Military Times)
20 October 2023
Wreck of HMS Thistle, sunk on April, 1940 discovered: Missing submarine found 83 years after it was torpedoed in WWII battle (CBSNews) & Unknown submarine wreck from World War II discovered (Institute of Marine Research)
16 October 2023
Survey Shows Striking Legacy of ‘Operation Dynamo’ on the Seabed off Dunkirk The UK’s Historic England and France’s Department of Underwater Archaeological Research combined efforts to survey 30 wrecks that were sunk during the Allied evacuation of Dunkirk in May/June, 1940.
13 October 2023
Finding shipwrecks and planes lost at sea (BBC). Sounds like my kind of job.
2 October 2023
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20 September 2023
Mission to detect shipwrecks lost during the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk (The Independent) 72 of the ships lost during Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Dunkirk (May 6 – June 4, 1940), are mapped (see below; or check them out on the interactive map). Another 24 are in the database without a mappable location.
18 September 2023
9 September 2023
29 June 2023
Search of sunken WWII battlefield in Pacific finds planes, ships, amphibious vehicles (American Military News) Sadly, very sparse on the details.
16 June 2023
Uruguay to melt down bronze Nazi eagle and recast it as dove (DW)
21 April 2023
WWII Wreck On Which Nearly 1,000 Australians Died Found (Barron’s)
17 March 2023
See how Nazi U-boats nearly won WWII in these striking maps (National Geographic). My database again makes an appearance.
28 February 2023
Russia’s Mysterious Interest in Old Shipwrecks (Bloomberg)
16 February 2023
Wreck Site Identified as World War II Submarine USS Albacore (SS 218)
4 December 2022
‘Ticking Ecological Time Bombs’: Thousands Of Sunken Ships From WWII Are Rusting At The Bottom Of The Pacific (Honolulu Civil Beat) My database makes an appearance here.
18 November 2022
See a Sea Change: 3D Researchers Bring Naval History to Life (NVDIA)
22 October 2022
World War II Shipwreck Leaks Pollutants Into North Sea, Study Finds (New York Times)
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20 August 2022
Severe European drought reveals sunken World War II warships on Danube River (ABC News) But which one is which?
28 June 2022
US World War II ship sunk in famous battle found by explorers, deepest shipwreck ever discovered (FOX New)
22 October 2021
Underwater volcanic activity reveals ghost ships from WWII in Japan (USA Today)
29 July 2021
Shipwreck found in Flemish Pass could date back to WWII, says expert (CBC News)
24 July 2021
Bell Island’s got an explosive problem – and these military divers are back to defuse it (CBC News)
3 June 2021
Heartbreak as large-scale salvagers loot Southeast Asia’s WWII shipwrecks, war graves (CNA Insider)
27 May 2021
Ocean explorer discovers 5 sunken WWII subs, giving closure to hundreds of families (NBC News)
2 April 2021
USS Johnston: Sub dives to deepest known shipwreck (BBC News)
Sunken Ships of the Second World War 