By Winston Ross The Register-Guard Published: February 19, 2008 12:48PM You’ll never guess what washed up near Cannon Beach last week: a pair of really old cannons. Not just any cannons, either, but likely the very same ones that inspired the name Cannon Beach, back around the time the town was formed in the early [...]

Shipwreck Nets Silver Cache Deep-sea treasure hunters, Odyssey Marine Exploration have claimed potentially the most lucrative shipwreck treasure in history (I guess Dirk Pitt and NUMA dropped the ball on this one). Their recent find netted them 17 tons of colonial-era silver and gold coins from a site in the Atlantic Ocean with an estimated [...]