Divers examine the stern of the sunken Andrea Doria. Bielenda said because of its depth, divers usually can’t see the Andrea Doria until they’re about 40 or 50 feet away from it.

The Andrea Doria, named after a 16th century Genoese Admiral, has long been considered one of the most challenging of popular dive sites because of its remote location 55 miles off shore, and the ...

The Andrea Doria, which was once considered Italy's flagship, has attracted thousands of divers since 1956, but most only go down one or two times "just to say that they went there,” said ...

Divers first plunged into the waters off Nantucket, Massachusetts, to catch a glimpse of the Andrea Doria a day after the ship sank in July 1956. That first dive netted photos for Life magazine.

One veteran Long Island diver, Bill Pfeiffer of Nesconset, said Wednesday that diving the Andrea Doria site is dangerous because of the depth -- about 200 feet below the surface -- and strong ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. —The Noble Maritime Collection presented Exploring the Andrea Doria, a free lecture by researcher and diver John Moyer at the museum on Sunday, April 2.

Salvage diver John Moyer of Vineland, N.J., calls the sunken ocean liner Andrea Doria “the Mount Everest of wreck diving.” And as holder of salvage rights to the former pride of the Italian ...

BOSTON (AP) — A 64-year-old diver who went missing while diving near the Andrea Doria wreck off the Massachusetts coast is presumed dead and the Coast Guard has suspended its search.

Divers frightened away by the many deaths at the wreck site of the SS Andrea Doria—16 people have lost their lives trying to explore it—can soon see what slumbers off Massachusetts another ...

Diver Paul Harling described the wreck to fellow diver and author Gary Gentile as being “disturbingly noisy.” Gentile, whose book Andrea Doria: Dive to an Era, chronicles his 66 explorations ...

As many as 16 divers have died over the years exploring the wreck of the Italian luxury liner. The Andrea Doria sank on July 26, 1956, in about 240 feet of water 50 miles south of Nantucket after ...

Undersea explorers from Everett, Wash., get the best look in decades at the Andrea Doria, an Italian ocean liner that sank 60 years ago off Nantucket.