The search will involve a new fleet of underwater robots that can operate independently at depths of up to 6,000 metres for up to 100 hours at a time.

The Navy, which still owns the Macon and about 14,000 other aircraft wrecks around the world ... to an aluminum girder sitting underwater. The magnesium will give up its electrons easier ...

After lying undetected beneath the Aegean Sea for over eight decades, the wreckage of a Second World War bomber, the ...

But it has also proved it is capable of locating underwater wreckage in the past ... refined analysis of information received after the aircraft disappeared. This information included weather ...

Preservation activities began when Kotaro Yamafune, 39, an underwater archaeologist ... According to a local dive shop, aircraft, a transport vessel and other wrecks can be found in at least ...