Tag: Titanic
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Powerful Images
The iceberg that sank the Titanic. One a series of images published by the Boston Globe in an online photo gallery. Before putting the Titanic back to bed after weeks […]
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It’s everyone for himself on sinking ships
STOCKHOLM (AP) – A hundred years after the Titanic sank, two Swedish researchers on Thursday said when it comes to sinking ships, male chivalry is “a myth” and more men […]
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Wakeup Call
More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank in 1912. A century later, 32 were killed when a luxury cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, was shipwrecked off the Tuscan […]
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How the Titanic Sank
In an excerpt from National Geographic’s program Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron, the director recreates the shipwreck with 3D animation. Cameron was recently the first person to dive […]
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Unseen Titanic
The April 2012 edition of National Geographic magazine features the first ever complete views of the wreck of the Titanic, made from thousands of high-resolution images, in its current state […]
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Do ships still hit icebergs?
Next month marks the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic. The disaster spurred maritime nations to start monitoring icebergs, so why are ships still hitting them? Shortly before midnight […]
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Remembering the Titanic
The Northwest Atlantic is a unique maritime environment where the threat of icebergs, fog, severe storms and busy shipping lanes are a constant threat to mariners. It was 99 years […]
