Searchers have discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale in the late 19th century, completing a quest that began almost 60 years ago.
The Nash County father and son who uncovered a ship built more than 100 years ago buried on their land have now rebuilt a portion of it for visitors.
"We all told him, someone is going to be killed in this thing and you've got to not do it," the president of DOER Marine Operations said of OceanGate's CEO, who visited her back in 2015.
"Challenging the Deep," the new exhibit from explorer and filmmaker James Cameron, is open at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
A makeshift boat of Styrofoam washed ashore in North Carolina.
The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor is apparently refusing to surrender to the forces of nature. Despite being on the seafloor since 1862, the first-of-its-kind ship remains in "an excellent state of preservation, NOAA expert said.