BOSTON: Nearly six decades after 46 people died when the Andrea Doria sank to the sea floor following a violent collision with another ocean liner south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, explorers are ...
BOSTON (AP) — The Coast Guard says an unresponsive diver pulled from the water near the wreck of the Andrea Doria off Massachusetts has died. Petty Officer Nicole Groll says the diver was operating ...
Ohio State Marion will host Andrea Doria survivor Julia Hansen at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The event, titled "Andrea Doria: A Famous Sea Disaster and Survivor's Story," will take place at in Maynard Hall’s ...
After the Titanic, the sinking of the Andrea Doria was the most dramatic peacetime sea disaster of the 20th century. Fifty years ago, on July 25, 1956, a collision with another ship doomed the Italian ...
As they scoured the muddy depths of the Atlantic Ocean, New Jersey divers Ernest Rookey and Carl Bayer were hoping for a bathroom tile, or some other small memento to remember their journey 240 feet ...
On July 25, 1956, the liner Andrea Doria slipped beneath the ocean to its final resting place, taking 51 lives with it. The ship still hasn’t stopped taking lives. Kevin McMurray’s “Deep Descent: ...
The six months of legal wrangling between the Swedish American and Italian lines over the responsibility for the Andrea Doria’s sinking (TIME, Aug. 6) came to an abrupt halt last week. In a quiet, ...