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Two days later, deep divers Kaido Peremees and Indrek Ostrat more precisely located and videoed the wreck. [11] Most unusually, the wreck is in a near-vertical position; following her sinking, the vessel plunged, bow first, 74 meters (243 ft) directly downward into the muddy bottom of the gulf, and is buried in the bottom to almost half her ...
A group of hikers encountering quicksand on the banks of the Paria River, Utah Quicksand warning sign near Lower King Bridge, Western Australia. Quicksand is a shear thinning non-Newtonian fluid: when undisturbed, it often appears to be solid ("gel" form), but a less than 1% change in the stress on the quicksand will cause a sudden decrease in its viscosity ("sol" form).
Omayra Sánchez Garzón (August 28, 1972 – November 16, 1985) was a Colombian girl trapped and killed by a landslide when she was 13 years old. The landslide was caused by the 1985 eruption of the volcano Nevado del Ruiz in Armero, Tolima.
Thousands of people remain trapped at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert after heavy rains inundated the area and created thick, ankle-deep mud which sticks to campers’ shoes and ...
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Tourists at Lake Mead also keep getting stuck in waist-deep mud as the drought uncovers fresh shoreline. Trucks and SUVs also got stopped in their paths. Trucks and SUVs also got stopped in their ...
Deepwater Horizon was a 10-year-old [30] semi-submersible, mobile, floating, dynamically positioned drilling rig that could operate in waters up to 10,000 ft (3,000 m) deep. [31] Built by South Korean company Hyundai Heavy Industries [ 32 ] and owned by Transocean , the rig operated under the Marshallese flag of convenience , and was chartered ...
A tow truck driver in scuba gear enters a canal north of 10th Avenue North at Florida Mango Road to hook it up a submerged car so it could be towed.