Has a shipwreck ever been raised?

The Mary Rose The wreck was discovered in 1971 and raised in 1982. It was one of the most ambitious and expensive maritime archaeology projects in history. Today, one of the most famous shipwrecks in history sits in the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth alongside some 26,000 artefacts recovered from the wreck.



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Due to very low levels of oxygen at shallow depths, Black Sea shipwrecks are well preserved when compared to other Mediterranean wrecks from the same time period.

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Thankfully, very few cruise ships have actually sunk in modern history. Even so, the Titanic's sinking impacted maritime law so much that there are more than enough lifeboats for all passengers and crew onboard any given sailing. Within the last 111 years, over 20 cruise ships and ocean liners have sunk.

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His research has pinpointed 15,000 shipwrecks across the globe in a map accounting for the more than 550,000 servicemen killed and 43 million tons of iron sunk during WWII. But 4,500 sunken ships remain unaccounted for because records on them are limited, Heersink says.

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It is estimated that there are over three million shipwrecks worldwide! Less than 1% of these wrecks have actually been explored. Some wrecks are actively being looked for, including the Bonhomme Richard, but many are found by accident. The Dokos shipwreck is the oldest known wreck, dated to 2700-2200 BC.

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