Non-Fleet related news including shipwrecks, treasure, hoards and finds from around the globe.

Good Things Still Happen
Here is a very nice story about a person’s reunion with a long lost class ring. It’s stories like this that make you smile. Diver finds graduation ring lost in the ocean almost 5 decades

The Goonies?
Here is an interesting story that proves that fact is often stranger than fiction. Missing 17th-Century Spanish Galleon That Inspired Filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s 1985 Movie Discovered off the Oregon Coast

San Jose Controversy Continues
Special thanks to Fleet Society member Dave Crooks (Member #7) for his continued support of our new Newsletter page that focuses on other shipwrecks and related treasure. Here is a link he sent us regarding

Sunken Antarctic Ship Explored
This article was submitted by our Vice-President Phil Flemming. It is a lesson on how to explore but not disturb a deep wreck. Here is the article: See individual artifacts on the deck of sunken

More on the San Jose
An update on the San Jose can be found at the link below: The Fraught Battle over the Holy Grail of Ships

Not All Treasure is Gold and Silver
Frozen in Time: 32,000-year-old Woolly Rhino Found with Skin, Fur, and Organs Intact

Wreck of ‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ Found Off California
The rediscovery of the vessel, which was captured by the Japanese for a time during World War II, highlights the potential of underwater autonomous vehicles to map the ocean floor. Link to the full article

Return to the Housatonic
The USS Housatonic, a blockader, has the distinction of being the first ship ever sunk by a submarine during war. It was part of the blockade of Charleston harbor during the Civil War. It was
This Day in History — September 1, 1985
The wreck of the RMS Titanic was discovered on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, September 1, 1985. The ship sank on April 15, 1912. | Fox News