shipwreck

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

They stored the item in water to keep it from disintegrating, marked down exactly where in the shipwreck it was found and placed it in a locked case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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

We were twenty feet underwater, inside an old shipwreck, and we were breathing.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Across several studies, participants who listened to specific excerpts from symphonies by Liszt or Mahler imagined similar narratives in the music—storms, pirates and shipwrecks, in one case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

HMS Nottingham was identified 60 miles off the coast of Scotland by a team of ten divers led by ProjectXplore, an international project that aims to locate historically-significant shipwrecks around the UK.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025

Joseph had learned something about shipwrecks as a pupil at St. Anthony’s, which was named after the patron saint of shipwrecks and lost things.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick

A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned around one-fourth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

International law requires belligerents in a war to assist sailors wounded or shipwrecked in battle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

“It looks like two classically shipwrecked people,” Smith said, calling it a “highly questionable decision that these two people on that obviously incapacitated vessel were still in any kind of fight.”

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025

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 mourned the dead girl all that day, fraying the nerves of the whole family and all the neighbors, who came running at the sound of his shipwrecked howls.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

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

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