Sunken treasure: Divers retrieve Coney Island bell that had been underwater since 1911 fire

October 8th, 2009 Lloyd Weber makes new Phantom set at Coney IslandLONDON — Andrew Lloyd Weber has announced a sequel to his massively successful "Phantom of the Opera" that will be set at Coney Island. Weber's new production, "Love Never Dies," is due to open in London in March of next year.

August 19th, 2009 Cape Cod diver finds cannons once ID'd by JFK Jr.PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — A treasure hunter on Cape Cod brought more booty ashore from a sunken pirate ship, including two cannons first identified by John F.

August 11th, 2009 NYPD divers grope blindly in fast, murky HudsonNEW YORK — It's an eerie underwater world that few people will ever see — an unforgiving morass of mud, rocks and collapsed pilings from old piers. But the bottom of the Hudson River is familiar territory to New York Police Department divers, who have spent three days working to retrieve the bodies of victims from Saturday's deadly collision between a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane.

August 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) head Debbie Hersman said Monday that her agency had sent "scores of recommendations" to the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) about small planes and tourist helicopters sharing the air space, which were ignored. "We believe if the recommendations were implemented, aviation safety would be improved," the New York Daily News quoted Hersman, as saying.

August 11th, 2009 Divers back in the water at NY collision siteHOBOKEN, N.J. — Divers are back in New York's Hudson River around the site where a plane and sightseeing helicopter collided over the weekend, killing nine people.

July 8th, 2009 Bidder in Hilo Hattie bankruptcy case bows outHONOLULU — Maui Divers Jewelry has withdrawn its $1 million offer to buy Hilo Hattie out of bankruptcy. The announcement came Tuesday after Maui Divers entered into an agreement to remain the sole jewelry concessionaire at Hilo Hattie's seven island stores.

July 4th, 2009 NEW YORK - An eating competition held in Coney Island saw three elephants downing 505 hot dog buns, while three of their human contenders downed only 143. Eric "Badlands" Booker, 40, Juliet Lee, 43, and Gravy Brown did their best in the first-ever Elephants and Humans six-minute eating competition, but they were no match for the three circus elephants, Bunny, Susie and Minnie.

June 15th, 2009 Tides stymie fuel removal from sunken vesselANCHORAGE, Alaska — Divers on Sunday began removing fuel from an oil field supply ship that sank in the Cook Inlet five months ago, but the work was soon halted when the inlet's extreme tides started rocking a vessel being used as a staging area. Divers pumped out about 1,000 gallons of an estimated 30,000 gallons of diesel on board the sunken Monarch, according to a spokesman for the owner of the 166-foot vessel.

June 7th, 2009 Sewage concerns close NYC's Coney Island beachNEW YORK — Swimmers are being kept out of the water at Coney Island and nearby Manhattan Beach because of concerns about a sewage overflow. The New York City Parks Department posted signs Sunday saying swimming wasn't permitted at the two Brooklyn beaches.

June 4th, 2009 Fla. explorers may lose vast treasure to SpainTAMPA, Fla. — A federal judge says deep-sea explorers based in Florida should give 17 tons of shipwreck treasure back to Spain.

May 14th, 2009 Crewman's body recovered from sunken boat off NJCAPE MAY, N.J. — The Coast Guard says commercial divers have recovered the body of a crew member killed when a fishing boat sank off southern New Jersey in March.

May 8th, 2009 SYDNEY - Exitpoint, a small, wearable, safety device, helps divers find their way back to their boat or their diving buddy at any time during a dive. Exitpoint is a concept for a sonar navigation and early warning system, designed by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) industrial design graduate Tom Fraser.

February 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Scuba diver Sabir Bux took on national-level billiards player Ahsan ul-Haque during a game under the surface of the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Orissa, which they say was the first such attempt in the world. The game was played off the coast of Gopalpur, some 180 km from here, for over an hour Sunday.

January 29th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia could have the right to file a claim for part of treasure worth billions of dollars on board a British cargo ship sunk by a German submarine during World War II, experts said. The British cargo ship, torpedoed in June 1942 while carrying precious metals to the US to help pay for the Allied war effort under the Lend-Lease Act, was recently discovered by the Sub Sea Research company off Guyana.

January 19th, 2009 DHAKA - Twenty-two bodies were retrieved by rescuers Tuesday from a sunken trawler in Bangladesh's southeastern Chandpur district, officials said. A trawler carrying 50 labourers capsized on the Meghna River, some 115 km from here, early Monday.