shipwreck

Waters has encountered complete artifacts while working with shipwreck collections, where intact objects are more common.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

Italian divers have discovered an ancient Roman shipwreck off the coast of Sicily, believed to be more than 2,000 years old.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

In Homer’s poem, the goddess Calypso rescues Odysseus from a shipwreck and keeps him on her island for seven years, even as he longs for Penelope and Ithaca.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Anwar said the traffickers arrested after the April shipwreck were released on bail despite facing potential life sentences.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Exhausted and wet, he felt like the survivor of a shipwreck himself, a lost boy who’d just washed up on the doorstep of his uncle’s mysterious house.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick

The Caribbean was filled with centuries-old shipwrecks, and Mr. Dooley became enthralled by marine archaeology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Homer’s “The Odyssey” follows Odysseus, a Greek king trying to get home after the Trojan War, a journey interrupted by Cyclopes, sirens, shipwrecks and gods with grudges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

Unlike at calm Rongelap, where the Warrior could get as close as half a mile to shore, the water around Mejato was thick with coral and sported two visible shipwrecks to warn Willcox away.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

"As a normal human being like me, going in exploring shipwrecks and identifying shipwrecks, that is just something different to my normal life, and it's a fantastic feeling."

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2025

These examples of the latest in underwater discovery technology are not the only high-tech tools that will soon be available to all those seeking the evidence of the past from shipwrecks.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Ignited by a shipwrecked sailor’s emergency flare, the fire was first reported on the island’s southwestern coast in the early morning hours of May 15.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Founded in 1964 as an offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline broadcast from a ship until 1991, when it was shipwrecked off the Kent coast.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Newly shipwrecked on the island is Tolomeo’s usurping brother, Alessandro, who is having second thoughts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

On Friday, Italy's coastguard said it was searching for the survivors of a shipwrecked vessel carrying about 30 people in the search and a rescue area of Malta, some 50 miles southeast of Lampedusa.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

He was caught in a storm & shipwrecked in India.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

“Maybe fate brought you here for a reason,” Blackthorne is told shortly after shipwrecking in Japan.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

Instead he continued: “But I ain’t the one to bear a grudge, Duval, although you did come mighty near shipwrecking my faith in human natur’.

From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by John Henry Goldfrap

I’ve had a pretty good hardening already, what with knocking on the head, drowning, shipwrecking, starving, and walking off my legs.”

From Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor by John Schonberg

He was in danger of shipwrecking on that fatal sunken reef to American character, popularity.

From Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41 by Unknown

And of the risks I ran of utterly shipwrecking my character and good name and from which Thou didst rescue me. 

From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Alexander Whyte