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June 3, 2017
In the mid-1600s a wooden sailing ship was lost on the rocks at Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland. In 1981 diver Wayne Mushrow discovered the first of two astrolabes on this shipwreck.

July 20, 2017
The Memory Mug Up is an informal story-sharing session, where people gather, have a cup of tea, and share memories.

March 11, 2015
Hear about the greatest “maritime suicide” of all time and the birth of modern salvage operations that followed. See video of some of the best diving on naval shipwrecks in the world.

May 15, 2014
The Shipwreck Preservation Society of Newfoundland & Labrador presents Search for the B-24 Bomber Wreck in Gander Lake. A presentation by Tony Merkle.

March 2014
CBC TV’s Land & Sea episode features SPSNL’s underwater archaeology project at Conception Harbour in 2013.

March 28, 2014
This famous vessel went to the annual seal hunt and carried the First 500 of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment to Europe in 1914.