The Republic wreck, recovered in 1981 by Captain Martin Bayerle, stands upright roughly 80 kilometers south of Nantucket Island, around 250 feet deep. RMS Lusitania British ocean liner RMS Lusitania was the world’s largest passenger ship for a brief period when it launched in 1906. The ship...
“He’d heard reports of mass stampedes, of suicides, and of angered listeners threatening to shoot him on sight. ‘If I’d planned to wreck my career,’ he told several people at the time, ‘I couldn’t have gone about it better.’ With his livelihood (and possibly even his freedom...
Wreck Diving in Vanuatu The Second World War saw an American presence in the islands and the local population became aware of the technology, goods and wealth which had previously been unknown to them. This led to a birth of nationalism calling for independence and the appearance of various “...
Explore the ruins of the battleship “USS Maine” in Havana harbour, CubaWreck of the battleship USS Maine in Havana harbour, Cuba. See all videos for this article 2 of 2 MaineThe half-submerged battleship USSMainein the harbour of Havana, 1900. ...
Herodias’s daughterSalome) made good use of his natural suspicions and poisoned his mind against his wife in order to wreck the union. In the end Herod murdered Mariamne, her two sons, her brother, her grandfather, and her mother, a woman of the vilest stamp who had often aided his ...
The Andrea Doria, lying at a depth of about 250 feet (76 metres), became a popular dive site despite various hazards, notably submerged fishing lines and nets, strong currents, and sharks. It has been nicknamed the “Mount Everest of Wreck Diving” because of the technical skills required....
—from “Diving into the Wreck” Throughout the 1960s and ’70s Rich’s increasing commitment to thewomen’s movementand to afeministand, after openly acknowledging herhomosexuality, lesbianaestheticpoliticized much of her poetry. At the same time her work became associated with the confessional po...