Crewmembers of an Indonesian Air Force NAS 332 Super Puma helicopter search for the victims and wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ 8501 over the Java Sea, Indonesia, Jan. 5, 2015. Editor at Large Divers ...

Historic World War II-era shipwrecks in the Java Sea, near Indonesia, are being plundered for scrap metal by illegal salvage operators, according to an underwater survey expedition that explored the ...

Minutes after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport near Jakarta, Indonesia, a Boeing 737-500 plane came crashing down into the Java Sea on Saturday, according to government spokesman ...

Researchers have been investigating the incredible cargo from an 800-year-old shipwreck for years, trying to uncover its secrets. Now, with the help of what researchers called an X-ray gun, they know ...

In the 1980s, fisherman in the Java Sea discovered the remnants of a shipwreck that would have looked much like this model in its glory days. The ship, a merchant vessel thought to have gone down in ...

A shipwreck is even older than previously believed, thanks to more accurate dating The equivalent of a "Made in China" label helped to date the shipwreck The discovery of a shipwreck, thousands of ...

Naval forces of Indonesia and Russia began their first joint military training drills in the Java Sea on Monday, the Indonesian navy said, which analysts say shows the Southeast Asian country's ...

Fishing communities on small islands in the Java Sea and farther afield have long complained that large purse seine vessels are encroaching on traditional fishing grounds. On Sembilan Island, between ...

Several pieces of debris linked to the missing AirAsia jetliner were spotted floating in the Java Sea off Borneo on Tuesday. The crew of an Indonesian military aircraft noticed white, red and black ...

For years, the Java Sea looked like a gap in the record. Some of the most important Homo erectus fossils ever found came from nearby Java, but the shallow seabed between the islands seemed to hold ...