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Resurrecting A Long-Lost 19th Century Fragrance

Resurrecting A Long-Lost 19th Century Fragrance

[Updated with video] Some of the world’s foremost fragrance industry experts have analyzed a pair of 150 year-old perfumes discovered in a shipwreck off Bermuda and now will create a replica of the scent, making 19th Century perfume available to the public for the first time. The process of revealing the ancient find to the world begins with a cover... Read more of this article

Sea Venture Film To Premiere Tonight At BUEI

Sea Venture Film To Premiere Tonight At BUEI

In honour of Heritage Month, LookBermuda is getting set to premiere a film documenting the Sea Venture and its historic wrecking on Bermuda’s shores. Following being featured as the opening night local film for the Bermuda International Film Festival, the film, named The Story of the Sea Venture: Downing’s Wreck, will have its official... Read more of this article

BUEI To Host Marine Lecture By William Gillies

BUEI To Host Marine Lecture By William Gillies

The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute [BUEI] is getting set to present a lecture by William B. Gillies on Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 7.30pm, giving attendees the ability to learn more about Bermuda’s unique maritime history. Part of BUEI’s Citizen Scientist Lecture Series, the presentation will feature Mr. Gillies, a retired wreck... Read more of this article

Bermuda Shipwreck Featured On BBC TV Series

Bermuda Shipwreck Featured On BBC TV Series

[Updated] This week a ship wrecked on Bermuda’s reefs was featured in a major BBC series on well-known Scottish-built vessels. The TV series, “Clydebuilt: The Ships that Made the Commonwealth”, is presented by Scottish actor and TV presenter David Hayman. The wreck, the ‘Nola’, also known as the ‘Montana’ [1863], sits just outside Western... Read more of this article

Bermuda Named #1 Wreck Diving Destination

Bermuda Named #1 Wreck Diving Destination

Bermuda has been honoured by the readers of Scuba Diving magazine as the No. 1 Wreck Diving destination in the Caribbean and Atlantic, as part of the publication’s 2014 Reader’s Choice Awards. “We’d like to thank the readers of Scuba Diving for this tremendous recognition,” said Bermuda Tourism Authority CEO Bill Hanbury. “We know that divers... Read more of this article

New Book Inspired By Sunken Treasure Theft

New Book Inspired By Sunken Treasure Theft

The still unsolved mystery of the theft of a valuable gold and emerald artifact from a Bermudian museum has served as the inspiration for a new book by a former Bermuda resident. The Cross – written by B.R. Bentley – was inspired by the theft of the Tucker Cross in 1975. Mr. Bentley lived and worked in Bermuda from 2007 through 2011 and... Read more of this article

Video Preview: LookBermuda’s Sea Venture Film

Video Preview: LookBermuda’s Sea Venture Film

After five years in production, LookBermuda’s Sea Venture film will be screened as the opening night local film at the 2014 Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF] on March 21st, which will be followed by the official Premiere in April / May. The Sea Venture is an integral part of the Bermuda story, her wrecking led to the permanent settlement... Read more of this article

Video: Stan Rogers “Flowers Of Bermuda” Song

Video: Stan Rogers “Flowers Of Bermuda” Song

Known as something of a classic in Canada, “Flowers of Bermuda” by singer Stan Rogers is a song that explores Bermuda’s maritime history, while acknowledging the sheer romanticism of the island and its natural beauty. The song tells the tale of the fictional ship Nightingale, a coal-carrying vessel that departed from Scotland en route... Read more of this article

Museum Displays 400 Year Old Crystal Earrings

Museum Displays 400 Year Old Crystal Earrings

The Instagram page of the National Museum of Bermuda has posted a picture of a pair of earrings that were recovered from an underwater site off of the island’s western shore, carrying a piece of history within them. According to the National Museum of Bermuda Instagram page, “These Crystal earrings were recovered from the wreck of the San... Read more of this article

Google Adds Underwater Shipwreck Imagery

Google Adds Underwater Shipwreck Imagery

[Updated] Google has added undersea Street View imagery of the wreck of the paddle steamer Mary Celesta to Google Maps, allowing the general public to get a look at one of Bermuda’s most famous shipwrecks without even getting their feet wet. The Marie Celesta is one of Bermuda’s most celebrated and infamous shipwrecks. A civil war era paddle... Read more of this article

Divers To Explore Confederate Shipwrecks

Divers To Explore Confederate Shipwrecks

Diving in order to inspect the many sunken ships off of the island’s coast is nothing new in Bermuda, but divers taking part in excursions later this year can make their trip a bit more novel by inspecting the remains of the Civil War-era vessel Roanoke. A four-day excursion being hosted in the fall by Dive Bermuda will take scuba divers on a search... Read more of this article

Clare Luce On Bermuda’s “Liquid Blue Jungle”

Clare Luce On Bermuda’s “Liquid Blue Jungle”

Clare Boothe Luce was a women of many firsts — the first female to hold a major US ambassadorial post, one of the first to serve in Congress and the first to crash the cozy boys’ clubs that were the Broadway and Hollywood writing communities in the 1930s. She was also one of the first women in the world to take up skin diving when she explored... Read more of this article

The Search To Find The “Sea Venture” Wreck

The Search To Find The “Sea Venture” Wreck

Over the centuries Bermuda’s extensive coral reef system has become a graveyard for literally hundreds of vessels — including a 300-ton 17th century English merchant ship which changed the course of the island’s history. The “Sea Venture” was the flagship of Admiral Sir George Somers’ relief fleet dispatched from... Read more of this article

Ship Wrecked While Sailing To Bermuda Found

Ship Wrecked While Sailing To Bermuda Found

Mexican marine archaeologists have recently discovered the wreck of the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company’s paddle-steamer “Forth” which sank while en route to Bermuda in 1849. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 which began carrying mail to Bermuda and the West Indies under a... Read more of this article

1926 Bermuda Hurricane Sank UK Warship

1926 Bermuda Hurricane Sank UK Warship

It remains one of the worst peacetime disasters in the Royal Navy’s history, the loss of HMS “Valerian” just a few miles off Bermuda during the catastrophic 1926 hurricane season. Launched in 1916 and used for minesweeping and patrol duties, the “Valerian” was returning to Bermuda in October, 1926 after assisting in hurricane... Read more of this article

Video: Exploring The “Caraquet” Shipwreck

Video: Exploring The “Caraquet” Shipwreck

A new video released by the Bermuda Department of Conservation Services explores the wreckage of the British mail steamship “Caraquet” which came to grief on the island’s reefs 90 years ago. Built in 1894, the 200-foot ship sank on June 25, 1923 in fog on a rough sea after a navigational miscalculation resulted in the ship being wrecked... Read more of this article