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When Treasure Hunting is the Family Business
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These Mesmerizing Videos of Ships Going Through Storms Will Turn You Into a Landlubber for Life
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FOUND: $1 Million of Sunken Golden Treasure
Hamburg, Germany
Blankenese Shipwrecks
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Formerum, Netherlands
Wrakkenmuseum
Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.
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FOUND: A Sunken Ship That Napoleon May Have Used to Escape Exile
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When the World’s Biggest Ships Meet the World’s Skinniest Straits
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FOUND: A Pre-Civil War Shipwreck on a Massachusetts Beach
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Beauty in the Wreckage: 7 of the Loveliest Shipwrecks in the World
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Shipwrecks, Scurvy and Sea Otters: The Tale of the First European in Alaska
London, England
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Crow's Nest
The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.
Chicago, Illinois
Shipwreck of the Silver Spray
This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.
La Push, Washington
Chilean Memorial
A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.
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Has the Mystery of the Tjipetir Blocks Been Solved?
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Tromelin Island
Now home to nothing but a weather station and a landing strip, a group of enslaved people were marooned on this tiny island for 15 years.
Two Harbors, Minnesota
Split Rock Lighthouse
This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.
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Returning to the Fatal Shipwreck of the World's Oldest Computer
Gold Beach, Oregon
The Wreck of the Mary D. Hume
This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.
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