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At 4.05 the yacht was entirely underwater and a few seconds later its emergency position-indicating radiobeacon (Epirb) became detached from the top of the mast and automatically raised the alarm, which was picked up by the satellite station managed by the Bari Coast Guard. [19] The yacht sank rapidly to a depth of 49 metres (161 ft). [20]
Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe. In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in Earth's seabed. [ 2] The mission was the final goal for Project Nekton, a series of dives conducted by the United States Navy in the Pacific ...
The K130 Braunschweig class (sometimes Korvette 130) is Germany's newest class of ocean-going corvettes. Five ships have replaced the Gepard -class fast attack craft of the German Navy . In October 2016 it was announced that a second batch of five more corvettes, originally to be procured from 2022–2025 but now reportedly delayed.
On top of running my business, I was also working in a factory, but I struggled to make ends meet,” he recalls. So at the age of 30, he sold everything he owned and bought a one-way plane ticket ...
Whether you have nightmares where you find yourself trapped on top of a skyscraper or you shriek every time a spider crawls by, you’re far from the first person to be straddled with that fear.
The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width. The maximum known depth is 10,984 ± 25 metres (36,037 ± 82 ft ...
RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson on the River Tyne, England for the Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the launch of RMS Olympic in 1910. Mauretania captured the eastbound Blue Riband on the maiden ...
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. [ 1] In practice the term often covers art showing ...