As reported by Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), a salvage operation has successfully lifted the WWI German submarine U-16 from its resting place on seabed off Germany’s North Sea coast. U-16, sank in 1919 near Scharhörn Island, was recovered during a complex nighttime operation on September 1, 2025. Recovery was deemed essential due to safety concerns for maritime traffic following modifications to local waterways. Resting approximately 20 meters underwater, U-16 broke into 2 sections during the lifting process. The first segment has been transported to Cuxhaven for scrapping, while efforts continue on retrieving the second half, contingent upon weather conditions. While ownership of U-16 lies with Germany’s Federal Directorate of Waterways and Shipping (not classified as a war grave) there had been discussions about preserving parts for potential display at museums; however, no institution has yet committed to housing the entire wreck.

The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki sunk in WWII's naval battles off Guadalcanal, was located by a remotely operated vehicle more than 2,600 feet (800 meters) below the ocean's surface near the Solomon Islands, by Ocean Exploration Trust. The first images and videos of the wreck were captured on July 10th, 2025.

On July 2nd, 2025, the Indonesian ferry TUNU PRATAMA, on voyage from Ketapang, Java to Gilimanuk, Bali with 53 passengers and 22 vehicles (including 14 trucks), sprang a leak and sank in Bali Strait.

The subject is the talk of all conversations in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. The Ravenel, a trawler that disappeared off the coast since January 1962, is said to have been found. On May 22nd 2025, CNRS researchers from the CNRS, helped by UAV of SEABER enterprise, accompanied by the fishing captain Karl Beaupertuis, discovered an uncharted wreck at about 7 nautical miles and over 120 meters deep. Analizys of UAV pictures taken on Thursday, May 29, are corresponding with the missing trawler.

The casualties caused by the fire on the passenger sgip KONGOLO has reached 148, with 100 people still missing. The KONGOLO had about 500 people on board and the fire was started when a woman was cooking on board the ship.

The Dutch submarine K-XI, scuttled and sunk in 1946 was found by divers in only 40 meters depth near Rottnest Deepwater Graveyard, off Fremantle.

The wreck of a US warship sunk in a World War II battle dubbed one of the bravest ever stands by a US Navy vessel has been found (a year ago, but announced today) in the depths of the Pacific, US and Australian officials announced Monday. Known as the "dancing mouse" due to its slippery movements in that final, fatal fight with the Imperial Japanese Navy, the destroyer USS Edsall went down off the coast of Australia in 1942, under the command of Lt. Joshua Nix.

The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) announced the discovery of the John Evenson, an 1884 tugboat that sank during an ill-fated trip in June 1895, in a Facebook post on Sept. 20.

D/V Tenacious have announced the identification of Le Lyonnaise. " SHIPWRECK DISCOVERY: LE LYONNAIS We are thrilled to announce the discovery of the 1856 transatlantic passenger steamship Le Lyonnais. The ship collided with the American sailing vessel Adriatic off the Coast of Nantucket on November 2, 1856. One-hundred-and-fourteen of Le Lyonnais’ 132 passengers and crew died in the disaster. A discovery team from D/V Tenacious first side scanned potential targets in September of 2023 and returned in August of 2024 to dive them, one of which was Le Lyonnais. The wreckage lies approximately 200 miles from our launch point at Fleet Marina in New Bedford, MA on the eastern edges of Georges Bank. The Le Lyonnais disaster is referenced in Jules Verne’s classic novel “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.”

Shipwreck hunters found QUEST using sonar equipment on June 9 after a 17-hour search that covered about 24 nautical miles. Shackleton once led an expedition on the QUEST.

The wreckage of the US Navy USS HARDER that sank the most Japanese warships during WWII has been found by the Lost 52 project, some 80 years after it was sunk by depth charges from Japanese escort ship CD-22. The USS HARDER was found very much intact at 3000ft (914m) below water off the Philippines' northern island of Luzon. Only the part aft her conning tower shows damage.

In July 1904, the steamship SS Nemesis was transporting coal to Melbourne, Australia, when it ran into a powerful storm and vanished. All 32 people on board were considered lost, and in the weeks that followed, the bodies of crewmembers and debris from the iron-hulled ship washed ashore, but the location of the 240-foot vessel remained a mystery.

The wreck of the WW1 French submarine "Floréal", which sank in 1918 was located in January 2024, by the team of Kostas Thoctarides at a depth of 98 meters in the Thermaikos Gulf off Thessaloniki. The wreck is intact and preserved in excellent condition as if time had stopped at the moment of its sinking in 1918. One of the hatches remains half-open to this day.

In 1845, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror set sail from England on a mission to chart a passage around the top of North America. Led by Captain Sir John Franklin, the voyage ended in tragedy three years later when both ships were lost in the frigid waters off Canada's coast.