The Turtle Graveyard of Sipadan
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2017
Back in the early 1980s, the famous ocean explorer Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau and his team paid a visit to the island of Sipadan, off the...
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The Million Dollar Point of Vanuatu
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 29, 2016
Located off the coast of EspÃrito Santo, an island belonging to the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, is a vast undersea junkyard of military...
The Sunken City on Kekova Island
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2016
The ancient Lycian city of Simena, often referred to as Kekova-Simena, once straddled the long and narrow island of Kekova in the Mediterran...
The Sunken City of Baiae
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2016
The ancient Roman city of Baiae, on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, was once a popular coastal resort famous for its idyllic loca...
Warship Graveyard of Chuuk Lagoon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2016
Under the clear blue waters of Chuuk Atoll in the South Pacific, seven degrees north of the equator, near New Guinea, lies the wreck of a do...
Europe's First Underwater Sculpture Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2016
The island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain, has set up of the first set of sculptures in what will be the first completely underwa...
Underwater Museum at Cape Tarkhankut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2016
About a hundred meters off the coast at Cape Tarhankut, the westernmost part of Crimea, at a depth of a ten to twelve meters is a unique mus...
The Sunken Pirate City of Port Royal
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 25, 2015
Port Royal was a city situated on the end of an 18-mile long sand spit known as the Palisadoes, at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in sou...
The Sunken Cemetery of Camiguin Island
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2014
Camiguin is an island province of the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about 10 kilometers off the northern coast of Mindanao. The isla...
Dean's Blue Hole, World's Deepest Blue Hole
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2014
Dean's Blue Hole near Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas, is the world's deepest known “blue hole” - a term given to any deep, wa...
Silfra: The Crack Between Two Continents
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2013
Located in the Thingvallavatn Lake in the Thingvellir National Park in Iceland, Silfra is part of the Atlantic rift – the dividing line betw...
Winners of Amateur Underwater Photography Contest
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2013
Each spring, the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science organizes an underwater photography contest open...
Neptune Memorial Reef: An Underwater Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2013
Originally known as the Atlantis Memorial Reef, the Neptune Memorial Reef is an underwater mausoleum for cremated remains. Located 3.25 mile...
Cancun Underwater Sculpture Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2010
If you want to checkout the new museum at Cancun, Mexico, you will have to don snorkel gear and take dive under the sea, for it’s the world’...
