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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
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
[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 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
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
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
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
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
[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
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 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
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
