Thursday, May 1, 2008
Awesome Pictures of Shipwrecks and Sea Disasters
Awesome Pictures of Shipwrecks and Sea Disasters
clipped from www.darkroastedblend.com
They were proud and beautiful once, confident in the face of anything the sea could throw at them - and now they haunt the coastlines with their sadness and beauty (but of the different kind):
The history of the "American Star" is nicely documented on this page.
This is how the ship looked right after it snapped in two:
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in 2000:
now gone.
Cherry Venture (more info)
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Ships in Peril, and Ships Perishing
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t-bone collision:
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Peru in 2006:
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Titanic-style sinking in Antarctic waters
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(Sinking of "Titanic"
Pasha Bulker - a huge container ship grounded in Australia
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More Container Ships in Peril
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Shipwrecks claimed by the desert
from Namibian Skeleton Coast:
shipwrecks of the Aral Sea
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Rest in Pieces
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:
Saddam Hussein's private yacht "Al Mansur" in 2003
The Sadness & The Beauty
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The majestic USS "Oriscany"
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the inferno inside
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Russia - Battleship "Murmansk", Sverdlov class:
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Most Photographed (and Beautiful) Shipwreck:
The "American Star" off Hesperides
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a similar ship SS United States in 1952
ship graveyard:
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