The owner of the wreck of the Lusitania is planning another, more detailed forensic dive expedition on the vessel after rejecting the findings of National Geographic-funded research into why it sank.

The owner of the Lusitania wreck has rejected findings of a €1.5m research project on why the liner sank so quickly.

Fresh revelations into sinking of the Lusitania claim to debunk theories that an explosion of munitions on board caused the ship to sink rapidly off the coast of Kinsale, Co Cork, claiming 1,198 lives.

AN AMERICAN multi-millionaire has moved a step closer to realising one of his life’s great ambitions — solving the enduring mystery of the sinking of the Lusitania.

THE Government’s reluctance to grant the owner of the Lusitania a licence to explore the wreck cost the taxpayer at least €340,000.

DIVERS exploring the wreck of the Lusitania have recovered thousands of what appear to be Remington .303 bullets of the kind used by troops in the first world war.

THE mystery surrounding the sinking of the Lusitania 93 years ago could be solved this week.

A TORPEDO sank the Lusitania in the First World War and today the weather is doing its best to sink plans to explore her.

TIME and tide wait for no man — except perhaps F Gregg Bemis.

AN American tycoon yesterday moved a step further in a 35-year legal battle to resolve a riddle of the deep - the sinking of the Lusitania.

A US businessman has completed a dive off the south coast to the wreckage of the liner Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat in 1915.