Tag: shipwrecks

Searching out shipwrecks

Earlier this month, a company called Odyssey Marine Explorations Inc. announced that it has discovered the sunken wreck of the S.S. Republic, a steamer that went down in a hurricane off Savannah, Georgia, on October 25, 1865, carrying $400,000 in $20 gold coins–worth $120 to $180 million today. There was a time when sending a …

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Icebergs

They say that a movie is only as good as its villain, and the new movie Titanic, now packing people into theatres all over the world, has a whopper: a giant block of ice that tears open the “unsinkable” ship’s hull and, a couple of hours later, send it to the bottom. Icebergs have bedevilled ships …

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