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A schooner sunk by British forces near New Orleans. USS Covington United States Navy: 5 May 1864 A gunboat that was scuttled to prevent capture off Alexandria. El Cazador Spain: 1784 A Spanish brig carrying silver currency, sank 50 miles (80 km) south of New Orleans, discovered by a fishing trawler in 1993. El Nuevo Constante Spain: September 1766
In addition to its traditional science dive program, HURL has also conducted a number of dives to locate and recover lost vehicles or instruments. This started with the recovery of the SeaMarc II lost off South Oahu in January 1989. As of 2015, HURL had recovered eleven items from the deep sea with a 100% success rate.
The atoll is named for the ships Pearl and Hermes, which were wrecked upon it in 1822. [10]The Hawaiian-language name for the atoll, Holoikauaua, was established in the late 1990s by the Hawaiian Lexicon Committee following an effort to restore traditional Hawaiian names which had been lost, misspelled, or replaced with foreign names. [11]
Built in 1938, YO-257 saw action in World War II, the Korean War, and in the Vietnam War. [3]From 16 September to 12 November 1963 the ship was temporarily loaned to the Coast Guard to assist in the construction of a LORAN radio navigation station in Yap, Western Carolines, carrying water-based asphalt to be used for a runway for aircraft servicing the station.
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On January 14, 2016, two Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters belonging to the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing of the United States Marine Corps collided over the Pacific Ocean off Oahu's North Shore in Hawaii. [1] [2] Each helicopter carried six U.S. Marines from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463. The search and rescue operation located the ...
The co-founder of OceanGate has said regulations around Titanic wreck dives are “sparse” and “antiquated”. OceanGate co-founder says regulations around Titanic dives are ‘antiquated’
Dec. 3—A 27-year-old man died late Friday night after crashing his speeding motorcycle into a vehicle on the westbound lanes of H-1 Freeway near the Ward Avenue overpass, Honolulu police said.