That missing submersible geared to visit the final resting spot for the Titanic has several links to space exploration and public space travel. Onboard the tourist submarine is Hamish Harding who flew on Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocketship in June 2022. Back on land, the crew of ...
The Arabic was ultimately torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in 1915 during World War I, in an incident that caused a diplomatic crisis similar to the sinking of the Lusitania several months earlier. Today, the Constitution is still moored at the same dock in Charlestown Navy Yard, ...
In Wolfgang Petersen's taut and claustrophobic thriller, a German U-boat crew faces the perils of World War II below the surface while struggling to maintain their sanity within the confined space of their submarine. As the crew members are pushed to their breaking point, The Boat explores the...
the same company that would later construct theTitanic. TheArabicwas built in 1903, so it was only a few years old in the top photo, providing a dramatic contrast to the Constitution. Ironically, though, despite being more than a century older, ...
Water is a pretty good reactor coolant when you’re at sea, so a lot of money got plowed into a particular design that was submarine friendly, called a pressurized water reactor. In part because this design was the best researched, it became the most popular. About two thirds of all ...
The wreck of the World War II submarine U-166 was discovered off the Gulf of Mexico by a gas pipeline survey team in 2001. Shipwrecked seaworthy rocks Bullit Marque/AP Some undersea treasure is in the eye of the beholder. These ball-like, 18th-century "stone crushers" were used for minin...
The year is 2204. We’re underwater. A submarine is investigating some sort of giant monster corpse. People are saying mysterious things about it that we won’t realize what they mean until later. And then the camera moves so we can see just what kind of corpse they’re investigating. ...
despite being more than a century older, theConstitutionwould outlive theArabicby more than a century. TheArabicwas ultimately torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in 1915 during World War I, in an incident that caused a diplomatic crisis similar to the sinking of theLusitaniaseveral months...