In 1789, more than 200 female thieves, prostitutes, and con artists were shipped off to an Australian penal colony aboard the Lady Juliana. Onboard, The wily women turned their banishment into opportunity and helped guarantee a new world’s future.

Even extremely experienced divers must train hard and plan carefully if they expect to survive the trip down to the Doria. Find out in this web interactive why this dive is so dangerous.

Read about the final voyage of the Andrea Doria and it’s final descent into the bottom of the Atlantic.

Read a play-by-play breakdown of some of the most important events that led up to the crash between the Andrea Doira and the Stockholm.

David A. Bright, president of the Nautical Research Group was involved in underwater and shipwreck exploration for thirty-five years and a specialist on the sinking of the Doria.

The Andrea Doria was considered the most luxurious liner in the Italian fleet. So how did it become a relic at the bottom of the ocean?

Read a brief timeline of the events and related Irish history leading up to Irish independence.

Learn about the revolutionaries are arrested in 1866, to Fremantle Prison, the most remote and notorious jail in the British Empire, to the United States, where their ultimate taste of liberty is bittersweet.

In 1876, after 8 years of incarceration in Western Australia, 6 Irish political prisoners escaped on board the American whaler Catalpa.

As director of the British School at Rome and head of the Herculaneum Conservation Project, he is on a mission to preserve Herculaneum.