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The Sideshow: A team of salvage divers has discovered an unexplained object resting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea near Sweden. “This thing turned up. My first reaction was to tell the guys that we have a UFO here on the bottom,” said Peter Lindberg, the leader of the treasure hunters. Sonar readings show that the mysterious object is about 60 meters across, or, about the size of a jumbo jet. And it’s not alone. Nearby on the sea floor is another, smaller object with a similar shape. Even more fascinating, both objects have “drag marks” behind them on...

Two terrified divers were left stranded in shark-infested waters when their charter boat disappeared. Paul Kline and Fernando Garcia Puerta had to cling to a buoy for two hours after surfacing from their late-afternoon dive in the Atlantic Ocean three miles from Miami and finding no trace of their boat. 'We were in shock. We could easily have died,' Kline, 44, told the Miami Herald. 'If night had fallen, the situation would have turned into panic.' He said they kept talking to each other throughout their ordeal 'to try to keep up our high spirits'. Mr Kline, a married father...

A group of Finnish and Swedish divers made a rare find on the Baltic seabed. If verified, the discovery could be the world's oldest drinkable champagne. Divers exploring a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea found 30 bottles of the champagne, believed to date back to the 18th-century. One of the bottles of Veuve-Cliquot has been shipped to France for analysis by champagne experts. Dark, cold conditions on the seabed are believed to have kept the champagne in excellent condition. Experts say one bottle may be worth nearly $65,000. If confirmed, the bottles would beat the previous title of the world's...

"Navy foils attack in waters near Gaza" SNIPPET: "As Gaza flotillas make headlines, Palestinian cell wearing diving suits attempts to launch attack from sea. IDF force spots cell members in waters of Nahal Aza area, opens fire. Al-Aqsa Brigades say four people killed, one missing. Shortly afterwards, IAF attacks rocket launching cell attacked in northern Gaza; one gunmen moderately hurt SNIPPET: "As the Gaza-bound flotillas continue to make headlines, the Israeli Navy thwarted an attack from the sea early Monday. According to the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson's Unit, a Navy force spotted a cell in the waters of the Nahal...

NEWPORT NEWS — Jim Kennedy slogged onto Utah Beach in 1944 and saw the bloated bodies of American servicemen in the water. The tide washed them out. The tide washed them back in. It was three weeks after D-Day, June 6, 1944. The drama of the landing had passed, and the grim work of cleaning up the beach had begun. The Allies were pushing inward. And Kennedy's own story was just about to start. He belonged to a unit of U.S. Army deep sea divers who were dispatched to the port city of Cherbourg. The Allies had captured it after...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Scuba divers swept away in strong currents survived 12 hours in shark-infested waters before scrambling onto a remote Indonesian island where they faced yet another threat: a Komodo dragon. ADVERTISEMENT The divers — three from Britain and one each from France and Sweden — came face-to-face with the giant, carnivorous lizard on Rinca's palm-fringed beach, and fought it off by pelting it with rocks and pieces of wood, Pariman, a port official said Sunday. "Luckily, they were able to chase it away," said Pariman, who, like many Indonesians, goes by only one name. The beasts have sharp,...

Two scuba divers were plucked from the open ocean almost 24 hours after they went missing on a pleasure dive on Austrailia’s Great Barrier Reef. The divers, 38-year-old Briton Richard Neely and American Allison Dalton, 40, were found shortly before 9am 7.8 nautical miles from where they had lost contact with their diving boat on Friday afternoon. They were winched to safety after an 18 hour air rescue effort involving up to 12 aircraft and flown to a Queensland hospital where they are said to be in good spirits despite suffering from mild hypothermia. Last night, police and emergency services...

PARIS - Divers trained in archaeology discovered a marble bust of an aging Caesar in the Rhone River that France's Culture Ministry said Tuesday could be the oldest known. The life-sized bust showing the Roman ruler with wrinkles and hollows in his face is tentatively dated to 46 B.C. Divers uncovered the Caesar bust and a collection of other finds in the Rhone near the town of Arles — founded by Caesar. Among other items in the treasure trove of ancient objects is a 5.9 foot marble statue of Neptune, dated to the first decade of the third century after...

An elite team of Navy divers joined the search for victims of the interstate bridge collapse Tuesday, bringing to the job lessons learned from such disasters as TWA Flight 800 and the loss of the space shuttle Columbia. The team of 16 divers and a five-member command crew arrived a day earlier. Once their gear arrived before dawn Tuesday, several divers immediately entered the Mississippi River even though local officials encouraged them to wait until daybreak. "Two in the morning, they dove into the water," Minneapolis Police Capt. Mike Martin said, calling them "the best divers in the world." "These...

Two Coast Guard divers killed in a botched Arctic training dive were loaded with too much weight and were assisted by untrained crew members who had been drinking beer, an official investigation has found. The two divers, from the Seattle-based icebreaker Healy, plunged to about 200 feet - about 10 times deeper than intended - shortly after entering the 29-degree water on Aug. 17, 2006.

ATHENS, Greece - Greek military divers Friday successfully raised the wreckage of a German World War II Stuka bomber from the sea off the eastern island of Rhodes, the air force said. The Junkers-87 dive-bomber was shot down in 1943 and will be conserved and displayed at the air force museum at an airport near Athens, air force spokesman Col. Ioannis Papageorgiou said. Papageorgiou said there was no trace of the two airmen's bodies. "The plane was raised a couple of hours ago, and I don't know yet whether there are any remains inside," he told The Associated Press. He...

SEATTLE -- The captain of a Coast Guard cutter was temporarily relieved of duty following the deaths of two crew members during a dive in the Arctic Ocean, officials said Wednesday. Capt. Douglas G. Russell will be replaced by Capt. Daniel K. Oliver, a previous commanding officer of the Seattle-based cutter the Healy, as the investigation into the deaths continues, the Coast Guard said in a statement. Russell had been in charge of the ship since June; before that, Oliver commanded the Healy for a two-year tour of duty. The Coast Guard has released few details about the Aug. 17...

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL -- "She loved her job, she loved her shipmates, she loved the Coast Guard and she loved to dive," said Chief Warrant Officer Jeff Parker. Thursday morning, relatives, friends and colleagues said goodbye to a, 'woman of honor.' Lt. Hill, 30, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Steven Duque, 26, of Miami, died last week during a scientific dive off the coast of Alaska. LCDR Laura King escorted lt. Hill's remains from Alaska to her hometown of St. Augustine. LCDR king was her room mate on board the Healy. "We kind of kept each other company. Whenever I...

Elizabeth City | State underwater archaeologists have found the remains of several boats in the Currituck Sound, including two they believe sank more than 100 years ago. Divers discovered last week what they believe was the steam freighter Undine, which struck a log and sank off Mackay Island in March 1912 while en route from Norfolk, Va., to Coinjock, said Richard Lawrence, director of the Underwater Archaeology Branch of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. "We feel pretty confident that is what it is," Lawrence said. Lawrence believes the freighter was carrying passengers when it sank. His team discovered the...

Divers begin search for underwater 'Atlantis' By Wu Chong (China Daily) Updated: 2006-06-17 05:56 YUXI, YUNNAN: Ten divers began a seven-day search for a possible underwater "Atlantis" on Friday in the Fuxian Lake near Kunming, the second-deepest freshwater pool in the country. Local diver Geng Wei first told of a large ancient city in the lake eight years ago, thought to span 2.4 square kilometres. Geng claimed to have seen lots of square boulders more than 1.4 square metres in size, either piled or scattered deep underwater. In 2001, the local government launched the first large exploration of the lake,...

Divers search for New Jersey police officers who drove off bridge NEW YORK (CNN) -- Divers from state and federal agencies searched Sunday for two police officers whose emergency vehicle drove off a drawbridge and plunged into the Hackensack River in New Jersey outside Jersey City, an official said.The vehicle was driving eastbound from Kearney toward Jersey City through heavy fog on the Route 1 and 9 Bridge -- also known as the Lincoln Highway Bridge -- at 8:15 p.m., when the accident occurred, said Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Tom Sperduto."The bridge was up; they couldn't see it and...

Divers unveil exquisite treasure pulled from depths of Java Sea Wed Oct 26,12:01 AM ET JAKARTA (AFP) - In a nondescript warehouse in Jakarta, treasure-hunter Luc Heymans dips into plastic boxes and pulls out jewels and ornaments that lay hidden at the bottom of the Java Sea for 1,000 years. An ornately sculpted mirror of polished bronze is one masterpiece among the 250,000 artefacts recovered over the last 18 months from a boat that sank off Indonesia's shores in the 10th century. On a small mould is written the word "Allah" in beautiful Arabic script, on top of a lid...

Iran bringing “many divers, sophisticated technology” to Gulf of Mexico by Laura Mansfield Earlier this year, a top Iranian General made the following boast: “Iran is the biggest military power in the region (with) 10 million volunteers for martyrdom operations ... to turn Iran into a terrible nightmare for the United States,” General Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, deputy commander of Iran’s hardline Revolutionary Guards, told the Kayhan newspaper. This summer, the BBC reported an ad in an Iranian publication has calling for volunteers for "martyrdom operations" against the enemies of Islam. The ad was published by an institute managed by one...

As a commercial diver for the past 15 years, Mark Atkinson said he has worked numerous times in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean. But his recent work about 100 miles out in the gulf off Caillou oil field along the Louisiana coast might well become his most memorable project since he helped to secure a 24-inch pipeline that pumps 175,000 barrels of oil daily. Contracted by Hilcorp Energy Service for Shell Oil Co. pipelines and facilities, Atkinson and three other divers from DiveCon LLC, of Harvey, La., began a pipeline installation project Aug. 21 as...

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7 (RIA Novosti, Arkady Orlov) - Officials at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet headquarters in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, have highlighted the role of American divers in an international effort to bring to the surface the seven-man crew of a Russian mini-submarine trapped for three days beneath the Pacific Ocean, off the Kamchatka peninsula. The officials said in a press release Sunday that three of the U.S. Navy divers involved in the rescue effort provided crucial help for the British underwater robot Scorpio in slicing through fishing nets and debris entangling the submarine. They also said that on...

SECURITY chiefs fear Al-Qaeda terrorists trained as scuba divers could mount attacks against a royal review of the fleet being held to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar. A senior Ministry of Defence (MoD) police officer has disclosed that militants using techniques learnt in western diving schools to attack Royal Navy ships are considered the main threat to the event. Officials fear Al-Qaeda divers could attach bombs to the hulls of the ships, detonate explosives strapped to their bodies in suicide attacks or even board vessels and kill some of those on board. The Queen, in her...

Tuesday 8 March 2005 12:40 Maritime And Coastguard Agency (National) DEVON DIVERS FIND 3,000 YEAR OLD BRONZE AGE ARTEFACTS ON SHIPWRECK SITE A group of divers have discovered a submerged hoard of Bronze Age artefacts off Salcombe, Devon. The find includes swords and rapiers, palstave axe heads, an adze, a cauldron handle, and a gold bracelet. The artefacts have been reported to English Heritage and declared to the Receiver of Wreck at the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, as it is believed that these relics come from an ancient shipwreck. The artefacts are currently being studied at the British Museum, which...

Divers find sunken treasure -- of the historical kindOLDEST SHIPWRECK: The Kad'yak went down in 1860 off Kodiak with a load of ice. By DOUG O'HARRA Anchorage Daily News (Published: July 29, 2004) Graduate students Evguenia Anichtchenko and husband Jason Rogers are among the researchers studying the Russian America Co. bark Kad'yak, which legend says was sunk by an Alaska saint. (Photo by Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News) Brad Stevens, left, and Jason Rogers document the hull structural remains of the Kad'yak. The ship went down in 1860 while hauling a load of ice. (Photo by TANE CASSERLEY /...

Standing on the sun-splashed deck of a police boat off Manhattan's Pier 88, the two divers pulled on wet suits, strapped knives to their legs and slid into the Hudson River through swirls of garbage and jellyfish. For the next half-hour, they groped through the blackness beneath the pier, running their hands over piling after piling, in search of something they hope to never find: explosives planted by terrorists. "You only have about a foot of visibility down there, so you have to use your hands," said the divers' superior, Sgt. Paul Reynolds, as he waited on deck. "The unfortunate...

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A recreational diver forgotten at sea by a boat crew drifted five hours in the ocean and prayed "God, I don't want to die" before a teenager aboard a century-old tall ship spotted him and fellow Boy Scouts pulled him aboard. Dan Carlock, 45, was left in the ocean by his scuba diving group Sunday and drifted for hours about seven miles offshore. He noted the time of day on his small, waterproof writing slate and took photographs of himself to document that he'd made it to the surface. And he worried about how his parents would react to his...

A local dive shop owner says FBI agents are wasting their time scouring Keys dive shops for information about suspicious people who took scuba classes. On May 23, the FBI released a warning that some terrorists had been seeking "an offensive scuba diver capability." Concerned that future terrorist attacks might come by sea, the bureau apparently is compiling a database of all the country's certified scuba divers. "Why spin your wheels interviewing the dive shops when they should be going right to PADI?" asked Capt. Bill Grosscup, owner of Captain's Corner on Greene Street. The Professional Association of Diving Instructors,...

United States Attorney Eastern District of Virginia District of Columbia TO: Anti-Terrorism Task Force FROM: Frank Shults Chief Information Officer RE: Kayak rentals The ATTF CIO in Milwaukee obtained the following information from an intelligence summary report of an Army CID ATTF rep. It is passed on to you for information purposes. (U//FOUO) California: On 21 May 2002, US Coast Guard (USCG) personnel were notified by a kayak distributor in Wilmington, CA, in metropolitan Los Angeles, that three or four men appearing to be of Middle-Eastern descent attempted to purchase four small "sit on top" kayaks several weeks ago. The...

Newburgh, NY: Here's a mystery that would challenge even Sherlock Holmes. A man's body is found floating in the Hudson River. He's wearing scuba gear and a face mask.

Last Updated: Thursday, 26 February, 2004, 14:02 GMT Divers recover piece of Graf Spee Poor weather conditions have hampered the recovery project A team of divers has recovered a key piece of the German World War II battleship Graf Spee from the mouth of the River Plate in Uruguay. Salvage experts managed to re-float the ship's range-finding equipment, which weighs 27 metric tons. It is the first significant part of the ship to be recovered in the operation after several failed attempts. The ship was sunk more than 60 years ago by its captain to keep it from falling into...

Divers aim to raise the Graf Spee Feb 4 2004 Divers will begin this week raising pieces of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled off Uruguay in the early days of the Second World War to avoid being sunk by a British armada. The Battle of the River plate that led to pride of the German fleet's humiliating end rapidly become nautical folklore ... and a film. Hector Bado, a spokesman for the salvage team, said work on the Graf Spee was scheduled to begin tomorrow but high winds and choppy waters on the broad waterway separating Uruguay...

JEDDAH, 6 December 2003 — Saudi authorities have detained two expatriates for questioning. The two continue to be held in a jail in Jeddah for as yet unspecified reasons, Arab News has learned. David Heaton, a British national and convert to Islam, and Abdullatif Ibrahim Bilal, a US national, were taken into custody for questioning last Thursday. “We confirm that David Heaton is currently being detained,” Barry Peach, a spokesman for the British Embassy, told Arab News. “The embassy has requested a counselor to assist Heaton and has been in touch with his next of kin, but up to now...

Lloyd Scott emerged from Loch Ness in an antique diving suit yesterday after a 12-day walk below the surface to claim a record as the world's first underwater marathon man. But he reported no sightings of the legendary monster. Mr Scott, 41, a former firefighter and professional footballer from Rainham in Essex, spent more than a month training and qualifying as a diver before taking to the Loch to raise awareness of a fundraising drive for the charity Children with Leukaemia. Mr Scott, himself a survivor of leukaemia, began his underwater journey on 28 September at the opposite end of...

Double tragedy: Scuba-diving brothers who also were best friends drown in an underground siphon in Lehi Family and friends of Ashton and Byron Hobbs grieve after Utah County Search and Rescue recovered their bodies. The two brothers drowned Wednesday night while scuba diving inside an irrigation tunnel in Lehi. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune) Members of Utah County Search and Rescue work near a tunnel in an irrigation canal in Lehi where brothers Ashton and Byron Hobbs drowned Wednesday night while scuba diving. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune) By Michael N. Westley The Salt Lake Tribune     Ashton and Byron...

After their boat overturns, friends swim for hours toward safety before being rescued. Coming up the anchor rope after scuba diving with friends off Miami Sunday, Raymond Gill looked toward the surface and knew something was amiss. Instead of the bright white bottom of their boat, a weird dark thing loomed overhead. At first, Gill thought they'd somehow found the wrong boat in the murky 70-foot depths, but as they swam up, the truth became all too clear. ''Oh [blank], that's the boat and it's upside down,'' Gill said Monday, only a few hours after he and seven friends had...

Divers find Confederate ironclad in 'very nice' condition Monday, September 15, 2003 | Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. -- An iron-seeking salvage team tried to blow it up soon after the Civil War. Then it lay submerged for more than 100 years, a hidden behemoth, out of sight and mostly out of mind in the dark waters of the Savannah River. Even so, the remains of the CSS Georgia - a Confederate ironclad ship that the rebels purposely sank in December 1864 as Union troops marched toward Fort Jackson - is "still a very nice shipwreck," says Judy Wood, a U.S....

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According to the U.S. agency charged with protecting America, Al Quaeda terrorists may be planning an attack from under water. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a bulletin warning that terrorists may attack American ships or ports using scuba divers. The "Swimmer Attack Indicators and Protective Measures" bulletin was issued on August 22, 2003. The bulletin advised "the maritime industry and owners and operators of maritime facilities of a number of incidents of suspicious activity and possible surveillance of maritime facilities around the U.S. over the past few months." The bulletin, issued to ship owners, port managers and...

Divers find piece of Henry VIII's warship August 19 2003 at 03:45AM London - Divers may have found the missing front section of the Tudor warship the Mary Rose, marine archaeologists said Monday. Alex Hildred, the dive's project manager, said that if the find was confirmed it would be "the most important maritime archaeology find in England in the last 20 years." Experts have been diving to the wreck off Portsmouth on the southern English coast for the past month, and have excavated a five-metre long piece of wood they believe is the front stem of the ship's keel. The...

The Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain Aug. 11 — The U.S. Navy has deployed highly trained dolphins to the region to help protect U.S. and coalition ships and piers against terrorist attacks by providing early warning of hostile swimmers. "If there are any uninvited guests swimmers and divers trying to cause harm to U.S. and coalition naval assets, the dolphins can detect and locate them," said Lt. Josh Frey, a spokesman of the 5th Fleet, which is based in Bahrain, on Monday. Citing security reasons, Lt. Cmdr. Martin Anderson declined to divulge how many dolphins have been brought in, when they...

WASHINGTON - A Swiss company is recalling 6,000 computers for divers because the computers can malfunction and pose a risk to a diver's safety. UWATEC AG has received two reports of the dive computers not working properly but no injuries have been reported, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday. The recalled units are the UWATEC Smart PRO and Smart COM dive computers. The Smart PRO is available as a console and wrist unit. The Smart COM is available in a console model. UWATEC dealers nationwide sold the dive computers from February 2002 to June 2003 for between $638 and...

<p>SOMERSET, Mass. (AP) Authorities are investigating a sighting of three scuba divers near a Somerset power plant early Saturday morning.</p> <p>An employee of NRG Electric Generating Plant told police he spotted three scuba divers on a beach next to the northeast side of the plant shortly after midnight. When he called to them, they replied in a language that he didn't understand, said state police spokesman Tom Ryan. The three then fled leaving behind their scuba gear, he said.</p>

By Associated Press, 5/31/2003 16:22 SOMERSET, Mass. (AP) Authorities are investigating a sighting of three scuba divers near a Somerset power plant early Saturday morning. An employee of NRG Electric Generating Plant told police he spotted three scuba divers on a beach next to the northeast side of the plant shortly after midnight. When he called to them, they replied in a language that he didn't understand, said state police spokesman Tom Ryan. The three then fled leaving behind their scuba gear, he said.

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Divers surprised by iron age port Maev Kennedy, arts and heritage correspondent Tuesday September 17, 2002 The Guardian Archaeologists diving deep beneath the ferries and yachts criss-crossing Poole harbour have found startling evidence of the oldest working harbour in Britain, built centuries before the Roman invasion. Timber pilings excavated from a deep layer of silt on the sea bed have been radio-carbon dated at 250BC, the oldest substantial port structures by several centuries anywhere on the British coast. They suggest an iron age trading complex, with massive stone and timber jetties reaching out into the deep water channel, providing berths...

This just broke after the Nets-Celtics game on NBC. Apparently the FBI is investigating a group of middle eastern men who purchased top of the line "undetectable diving equipment" sometime before the recent FBI warning. This is more than likely why the alert has been given about divers committing acts of terror. I have also gone through my usual sources through news-press paper out of Ft.Myers which is where the purchase was made. Now I ask those of you on here to do your research into this area. A few of the 9-11 terrorists lived in a rented room in...