The most famous shipwrecks in the world
The ship, believed to be impossible to sink, is called the Titanic, along with the British and Spanish battleships, buried in the ocean floor after being hit by ice or heavy storms.
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The ship RMS Titanicset sail on the first and last voyage on April 10, 1912.It has a journey from Southampton (England), to New York (USA).Only five days later, the ship sank in the north of the Atlantic after hitting a giant iceberg, killing 1,517 people.This is considered one of the most serious maritime disasters of all time.
In 1985, the wreck was discovered split in half and located about 3km away from each other.In the picture is the section of the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic, off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.(Photo: EPA)
HMS Mary Roseis the battleship of the Royal Navy.The wreck was discovered in 1971, after more than four centuries sunk in the Solent Strait.Earlier, this was the ship of the British warship fleet to attack the French ship.The wreck was recovered in 1982. (Photo: shipwrecks.silk.co)
Terra Novais an expedition and whaling expedition, once known for its discovery of Antarctica by Robert Falcon Scott in 1910. The ship then sank in Greenland in 1942. Location of the wreck located in 2012. In the photo is the Tera Nova in 1911. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Quedagh Merchantwas an Indian merchant ship, once attacked and left by the captain in 1699. The ship was discovered in shallow waters off Catalina Island, Dominican Republic, in 2007. (Photo: historytoday.com)
In 1622, Spain's Santa Margarita warship sank in a storm while passing through the Florida Keys, a low-lying coral archipelago in the southeastern United States.It crashed while on the way back to Spain, while carrying lots of treasure.In the 1980s, divers began searching for and discovering many valuable items from shipwrecks on the seabed.(Photo: modelshipworld.com)
The Royal Navy ship HMS Victory was sunk during a storm in the English Channel in 1744. It was discovered by a US salvage company in 2008. In the picture is a bronze pistol salvaged from wreck detection area.(Photo: Telegraph)
USS Monitoris an American steam-powered iron-covered ship, completed during the Civil War. The ship sank in a storm off North Carolina in 1863. It was discovered more than a century later.(Photo: history.navy.mil)
RMS Carpathiawas a passenger ship built in 1903 and participated in the rescue of the Titanic.Five years after the Titanic disaster, this ship was torpedoed by a German submarine.The wreck was discovered in 1999. (Photo: Wikipedia)
In 1867, the RMS Rhone was sunk in a storm off the British Virgin Islands, killing 123 people.The wreck is now considered one of the most attractive diving sites in the Caribbean.(Photos: Wikipedia)
The Swedish ship The Vasasank during the first trip in 1628. It was discovered in the 1950s in a rather intact state.After a long salvage process, the ship's ship is now stored and displayed in a museum in Sweden.(Photos: Wikipedia)
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