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Book about the history of the yacht RUMIJA
This year, the president of our association joined an international project investigating the history of the Montenegrin royal yacht RUMIJA, which was sunk by units of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Navy in 1915. Dr. Tamás Balogh - who, among the general international and Hungarian maritime history topics he had... -
The success of scientific activity
The president of our association, the scientific vice-president of the Hungarian Diving Federation, Dr. Tamás Balogh, and his fellow researcher, Péter Könczöl, were able to join the expeditions in the Atlantic Ocean examining the remains of the sunken oceanliner LUSITANIA in 2022 and 2023. The researchers reported in detail on... -
Hungarian contribution to the visualization of the wrecks of HMS HAWKE
Today, 110 years ago, on October 15, 1914, the British cruiser HMS HAWKE sank as a result of an attack by the German submarine U-9. More than five hundred British sailors lost their lives in the disaster. The wrecks were found and explored in August this year by the Scottish... -
Further secrets of the LUSITANIA in the National Geographic Magazine
The remains of the British giant steamer LUSITANIA, resting in the Atlantic Ocean, were visited again between July 13-21, 2023 by the the international expedition, which began in 2022, and was the first which had that most important task is the internal research of the areas affected by the explosion... -
Stunning new album shows history of Scandinavian shipwrecks
I had a pleasant surprise this week when Danish diver and underwater photographer René B. Andersen sent me some photos showing a few pages of his new book. The photos shows pages with the wreck drawings I made of the shipwrecks visited by the 2016 Jutland Centenary Expedition in which... -
National Geographic Magazine reports on the secrets of LUSITANIA
The remains of the British giant steamer LUSITANIA, resting in the Atlantic Ocean, were visited by the first expedition, which included both German and Hungarian members between July 6-14, 2022, of which members for the first time managed to get into the No. 1. boiler room of the ship and...