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Great white shark is recorded underwater in the Mediterranean for the first time ever

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'Record the faces': Tense moment NBA boss gives VERY honest take on Trump attending Knicks game Leaked transcript of UNAIRED 60 Minutes interview exposes REAL reason'callous' CBS star Scott Pelley'deserved to be fired' Disgraceful texts'hot' teacher sent boy, 17, who she had illegal sex with where she moaned about her HUSBAND Everyone always said I cleared my throat a lot. But then I developed shoulder pain and doctors discovered the sinister cause... the world's deadliest cancer. Don't leave it too late like I did Outrage as Netanyahu is caught SPYING on Trump's Iran negotiators... as JD Vance reveals a chilling truth about Israel White couple gave birth to'non-Caucasian' baby. Parents were told son, 7, had ADHD... not realizing he was battling terrifying disease that has now left him BLIND Medical student, 24, died by suicide in his white coat a day after he was suspended for alleged'inappropriate' behavior towards female patient, lawsuit alleges, as his heartbreaking goodbye note to parents is revealed Karmelo Anthony's parents seen leaving the courtroom in tears just before son's defense team pulls shock move Grim-faced former Louisiana mayor Misty Roberts arrives in court for sentencing after being found guilty of having sex with son's teenage friend Mother died during tummy tuck and Brazilian butt lift after clinic staff failed to hold'slow' elevator for EMTs, report alleges Gaming influencer Alex Cimo dies'very suddenly' aged 32 just a month after'refusing to accept his fate' 'Great' mom, 32, tried to gas herself and her three young kids to death after inviting them to'popcorn sleepover' in car, prosecutors allege The porn-fuelled fantasy middle-class husbands are desperate to try with their wives... and it almost always ends in divorce: JANA HOCKING Meghan Markle's As Ever website has had'less than 400,000 US visitors' since January - as Duchess launches collaboration with a lifestyle influencer to plug her products Nashville's most-hated influencer sparked outrage with sick posts about teen girl who vanished into the woods after a party... now his incredible life of luxury is unraveling Girl, 13, mistakenly told she was DYING after Oregon hospital staff made jaw-dropping surgical mistake, parents' $17m lawsuit alleges Mother's final words before she was shot dead'by new husband' in front of her two young children'They have a problem with my country': Africa's best referee, who was denied entry to the US and will miss the World Cup, speaks out and insists he had a valid visa Massive twist in JPMorgan'sex slave' case as accuser unveils NEW dossier of wild claims: 'The story is about to change dramatically' A great white shark has been spotted underwater in the Mediterranean for the first time ever. Divers from Healthy Seas were removing ghost nets on an offshore shipwreck between Sicily and Tunisia when they spotted the predator.


Metal detectorist finds 19th century Japanese coin in Australia

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The discovery likely dates back to the continent's gold rushes. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A metal detector hobbyist discovered a centuries' old coin while scouring an abandoned sports field--and the coin is especially rare for the area. In the southern Australian province of Victoria, treasure hunting enthusiast Angus James recently spotted a well-preserved 100 Mon Tenpล Tsลซhล, a 19th century Japanese coin likely deposited during Australia's decades' long gold rush. "You never know what you'll find next," James posted to social media on January 25th, along with photos of his recent haul.


Winter storms uncover 19th-century shipwreck on New Jersey beach

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The'Lawrence N. McKenzie' sank in 1890 loaded with oranges from Puerto Rico. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. New Jersey beachgoers could be forgiven for mistaking a pile of recently spotted debris for washed up driftwood, but the staff at Island Beach State Park say the find is much more notable. According to park officials, erosion caused by weeks of high winds and intense surf has revealed a portion of a nearly 140-year-old shipwreck . On March 21, 1890, a ship named the was nearing the end of an over 1,600 mile journey.


600-year-old Viking shipwreck is the largest of its kind

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The medieval'cog' was nearly 92 feet long and featured castles on its bow and stern. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Archaeologists in Denmark say a sunken Viking ship near Copenhagen is the largest boat of its kind ever discovered--and that's saying something. At nearly 92 feet long, the 600-year-old vessel is also one of the best preserved examples of a cog, a "super ship" whose advanced design and carrying capacity helped transform trade in medieval Europe. "The find is a milestone for maritime archaeology," excavation lead Otto Uldum said in a statement, adding the boat now offers a "unique opportunity to understand both the construction and life on board the biggest trading ships of the Middle Ages."


Medieval shipwreck mistaken for underwater 'rubbish'

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Science Archaeology Medieval shipwreck mistaken for underwater'rubbish' Loaded with grave slabs, the 13th century English ship was dragged to a grave of its own. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. After centuries at the bottom of the English Channel, remnants from one of England's oldest surviving shipwrecks are finally back on shore. Yet the reason it took maritime archaeologists this long to retrieve items from the 13th century Mortar Wreck was not because of its depth or the ravages of time. The shipwreck was mistaken for modern construction debris.


The quest to find Shackleton's ship uncovered an Antarctic mystery

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Environment Animals Wildlife Fish The quest to find Shackleton's ship uncovered an Antarctic mystery Beneath the ice, an underwater robot discovered something far stranger than the'Endurance' shipwreck. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The Antarctic Ocean's brutal conditions ultimately doomed Ernest Shackleton's famed 1915 expedition aboard the . Although the icy environment has quickly turned fatal for many unfortunate explorers, it's not an entirely inhospitable place . While attempting to locate Shackleton's sunken ship in 2019, researchers unexpectedly documented a strange sight-a sprawling, geometric complex of over 1,000 icefish nests .


ShipwreckFinder: A QGIS Tool for Shipwreck Detection in Multibeam Sonar Data

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Abstract--In this paper, we introduce ShipwreckFinder, an open-source QGIS plugin that detects shipwrecks from multi-beam sonar data. Shipwrecks are an important historical marker of maritime history, and can be discovered through manual inspection of bathymetric data. However, this is a time-consuming process and often requires expert analysis. Our proposed tool allows users to automatically preprocess bathymetry data, perform deep learning inference, threshold model outputs, and produce either pixel-wise segmentation masks or bounding boxes of predicted shipwrecks. The backbone of this open-source tool is a deep learning model, which is trained on a variety of shipwreck data from the Great Lakes and the coasts of Ireland. Additionally, we employ synthetic data generation in order to increase the size and diversity of our dataset. We demonstrate superior segmentation performance with our open-source tool and training pipeline as compared to a deep learning-based ArcGIS toolkit and a more classical inverse sinkhole detection method.


DREAM: Domain-aware Reasoning for Efficient Autonomous Underwater Monitoring

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The ocean is warming and acidifying, increasing the risk of mass mortality events for temperature-sensitive shellfish such as oysters. This motivates the development of long-term monitoring systems. However, human labor is costly and long-duration underwater work is highly hazardous, thus favoring robotic solutions as a safer and more efficient option. To enable underwater robots to make real-time, environment-aware decisions without human intervention, we must equip them with an intelligent "brain." This highlights the need for persistent,wide-area, and low-cost benthic monitoring. To this end, we present DREAM, a Vision Language Model (VLM)-guided autonomy framework for long-term underwater exploration and habitat monitoring. The results show that our framework is highly efficient in finding and exploring target objects (e.g., oysters, shipwrecks) without prior location information. In the oyster-monitoring task, our framework takes 31.5% less time than the previous baseline with the same amount of oysters. Compared to the vanilla VLM, it uses 23% fewer steps while covering 8.88% more oysters. In shipwreck scenes, our framework successfully explores and maps the wreck without collisions, requiring 27.5% fewer steps than the vanilla model and achieving 100% coverage, while the vanilla model achieves 60.23% average coverage in our shipwreck environments.


Wisconsin 'ghost ship' uncovered after 139 years

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Science Archaeology Wisconsin'ghost ship' uncovered after 139 years It took citizen scientists only two hours to find the F.J. King's final resting place. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A group of Wisconsin maritime historians and citizen scientists uncovered a Lake Michigan shipwreck "hidden in plain sight" for nearly 140 years. The team uncovered the waterlogged wreckage of the three-masted wooden schooner in the waters off Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin. On September 15, 1886, the 144-foot left Escanaba, Michigan, bound for Chicago with 600 tons of iron ore onboard.


Shipwreck over a mile deep has centuries' old artifacts--and modern garbage

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A shipwreck accidentally discovered off France's southeastern coast near Saint-Tropez appears to be a striking well-preserved 16th-century Italian merchant ship. At 8,422 feet below sea level, the vessel is likely the deepest of its kind ever found in French waters, according to the official announcement. But next to scattered ceramics, metal bars, and rigging rests what appear to be jarring reminders of modern life. Earlier this year, French military personnel noticed an odd ping while guiding an underwater drone along a routine surveying expedition. Although intended to monitor potential oceanic resources and deepsea cable routes, the equipment flagged something sizable already laying over 1.5 miles below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea.