After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

A WORLD War Two warship mystery has finally been solved after the wreck snagged on a fisherman’s net. The Vital de Oliveira ...

The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net ...

As part of a scientific expedition to obtain the exact location of the wreck, the navy officially confirmed the brothers’ 14-year-old discovery on January 16 using sonar imaging. Advertisement ...

The navy said in its press statement that the wreck was found “using multi-beam and side-scanning sonar.” Both methods, which deploy fan-like arrays of sound waves to scan the seafloor ...