Nordic countries:
The cold Baltic Sea has things in common with Arctica, Antarctica, the North American
Great Lakes and some sweetwater lakes : There is no shipworm, wood is preserved for
centuries and it's possible to find very well preserved wrecks. 
- Swedish Maritime Museum's wreck register
in Stockholm, tel +46-8-519 549 00, fax +46-8-519 549 49. The museum's national wreck
register is partially on internet. Also open to
the public Tuesday-Friday 1-3 PM.
- Maritime Museum of Finland,
Vrakholmen, Helsinki. tel +358-9-135 5379, fax +358-9-135 4991. National wreck database,
not on internet.
- Norwegian Maritime Museum, Bygdøynesveien 37,
N-0286 Oslo 2, tel +47-22 438240, fax +47- 22 56 20 37. The museum hosts (all or parts of)
the national wreck register, but not on internet.
- Center for Maritime Archaeology,
Box 317, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark. tel +45-4632 1600, fax +45-4632 2477. National wreck
database, not on internet.
- Foteviken
Maritime Centre, tel +46-40-45 68 40, fax +46-40-45 55 07, has a wreck database for
South Sweden, partially on line.
- Wrecks south of Nynäshamn. Swedish wreck list
for an area south of Stockholm.
- Naval Wrecks of Karlskrona, Sweden
- Wreckdiving in Norway
- Wrecks of Narvik, Norway, short
descriptions from New Jersey Scuba Diving
- The St George Shipwreck Museum, Denmark,
has an extensive wreck list
- UV-guide, Denmark. Based
on the "Dykinfo" database, at least 3000 wrecks, compiled by scuba divers.
The database can be downloaded. Only in Danish.
- Erik
Hall, Finland
Continental Europe & Europe in general:
- L'Archéologie sous les
mers, French Ministry of Culture. Wreck database and general archives.
- Navis. (requires Java) EU financed
database of ancient ship archaeology.
- SUB-REC, investigating with ROV, describing wrecks in Lac
Léman / Geneva Lake, Switzerland. Among the finds are spectacular
railway cars from 1859 on 300 m depth. Among other reports are "Rhône",
"Aigle II / Simplon", and a 19th century wooden
"brick".
- Wrakkensite, Netherlands
- Schiffswracks im Bodensee,
Martin Mainberger
- Schiffswracks,
Martin Lippuner, Germany
- Wrecks of Spain, Portugal & Florida,
Claudio Bonifacio
- Expedition Scyllias, France
- France: A printed list of shipwrecks off the French coasts can be ordered from
Patrick Lizé. He can be contacted at patricklize@hotmail.com
- Battle of
Jutland (1916) wrecks in the North Sea
North & South America:
- Web Dive Log, wrecks in Canada
- Northern Shipwreck Database,
Canada, you must write and order. A CD with 65000 positions can also
be ordered.
- Preserve our Wrecks, Kingston, Canada
- Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and
Labrador, Canada
- The Great Lakes Shipwreck
File, Dave Swayze, Canada/USA
- Shipwrecked on the
Internet, Scott Short, mainly the Great Lakes, Canada/USA
- Wreck
Web, The Great Lakes
- Shipwrecks of Lake
Champlain, USA
- Lake
Champlain Underwater Historic Preserves, USA
- Located sunken submarines in US waters
- Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks
, USA
- Isle Royale Shipwrecks, Lake
Superior, USA, small wreck database (sometimes bad connection)
- Minnesota's Lake Superior
Shipwrecks, Minnesota Historical Society
- Shipwrecks Near Chicago
- The Graveyard of the
Atlantic, US east coast
- Texas Wrecks, Mike Kline
- Florida's Underwater Archaeological
Preserves
- Shipwrecks off Alaska's Coast
- California Shipwrecks
- California Wreck Divers
- naufragios.com, Brazil
- Naufrágios do Litoral Paraibano,
Brazil
Worldwide specific locations:
Worldwide general:
- VOC Shipwrecks, Nick
Habermehl
- Merchant Fleets, James
Olsson, listing ca 7000 wrecks listed online.
- Ian's Shipwrecked Page (?)
- Lloyd's List of
Shipwrecks, Lloyd's Register
- VOC Wrecks,
Koen van den Dries
- English East India Company
Shipping Losses 1600-1834
- U-Boat Net, located WWII
U-boats suitable for scuba diving
- Yahoo
Shipwrecks
- Harald Bolten's
Global Wreck Database. At least 46000 wrecks are in the database,
but not online.
- Shipwrecks and Other Maritime Disasters, Robert R
Frump
- International Registry of
Sunken Ships, Canada
- Worldwide sources of shipwreck information,
address list to national wreck databases
- Major Warships sunk in WW I,
D. Milford
- Maritime Disasters of World War II,
George Duncan
- Shipwreck Registries and
Databases, R.H. Ossian
- wrecks.net
- Katastrofy na morzach, Łukasz Ossoliński,
Poland
Ship lists, not necessarily wrecks:
You can find more wrecks in the Nordic wrecklist and the worldwide wrecklist. For national wreck archives,
see European authorities and worldwide
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