The boom comes loose, and when you move to secure it, you slip and fall into the ocean. You sink for a moment before bobbing back up to the surface, only to see the boat careening away, your family searching in vain for a glimpse of you. It may sound like a worst ...
More than 20,000 shipping containers have tumbled overboard in the last decade and a half. Their varied contents have washed onto shorelines, poisoned fisheries and animal habitats, and added to swirling ocean trash vortexes. Most containers eventually sink to the sea floor and are never retrieve...
Ocean, near the Gulf Stream and the North Sea. However, rogue waves form in other places too. They are frequent off the southeastern coast of South Africa. Many scientists have studied this phenomenon and believe the interaction of wave swell with the current causes rogue waves in the area....
So there are extr a entries (条目) about things like the biggest octopus, the largest hot spring and the deepest shark, among 2638 records. This year’s book has funny records as well as serious science records. You’ll also find stories about pirate ships, shipwrecks (沉船), famous ...
These items aren’t like the used fishing gear and beer cans that Lewis also finds tossed overboard by fishers or partygoers. They’re the detritus of commercial shipping containers lost in the open ocean. Most of the world’s raw materials and everyday goods that are...
Pattaya is a vibrant coastal city that shot to fame in the early 1980s and has remained one of Thailand’s most popular vacation destinations ever since. From sunrise to sunset, its beaches are constantly brimming with watersports lovers and sun-worshipp
TheTitanicsank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912. It was the largest ship of its time, and was thought to be unable to go down below the surface of water. But four days after it left Southampton, England, theTitanichit an iceberg (冰山) and sank early the next day, killing some 1,500 ...
Pattaya is a vibrant coastal city that shot to fame in the early 1980s and has remained one of Thailand’s most popular vacation destinations ever since. From sunrise to sunset, its beaches are constantly brimming with watersports lovers and sun-worshipp
a glass bottom boat and we explore the ocean’s wildlife, and shipwrecks (this is the Bermuda Triangle!). Staying on the ship isn’t a bad idea either- we haven’t been on the Magic since 2018 and there is so much to see and do onboard. I am sure we will head to Horseshoe Bay...
Though they didn’t have careers to boast about, these sister ships were quite popular ocean liners that enjoyed the distinction of being the biggest ships in the world and better than their contemporaries. The Story of the RMS Olympic