The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria keels far over to starboard before sinking 225 feet to the bottom of the Atlantic 45 miles off Nantucket Island, Ma., July 26, 1956. The Andrea Doria was struck broadside by the Swedish-American liner Stockholm in heavy fog July 25 at 11:10 p.m.. (AP Photo/John Rooney)
BOSTON (AP) — Undersea explorers who spent several days studying the wreck of the Andrea Doria off Nantucket are planning to share their findings.
The crew from Washington-based OceanGate has scheduled a news conference in Boston for Monday morning.
Using a five-man submersible, the crew spent last week exploring the Italian ocean liner that went down in 1956 after it collided with another ship. Fifty-one people died, 46 of them on the Andrea Doria.
The ship has been resting on the ocean floor about 240 feet down and about 50 miles south of Nantucket ever since.
Sixteen divers have died exploring the wreck over the years.
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