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alphamecha-mkii · 1 year
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TIE Fighter Down by Stephan Martiniere
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theoddsideofme · 1 year
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st-just · 1 year
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Wreckage by Sergey Vasnev
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ancientorigins · 5 months
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It's a high-stakes battle for a 300-year-old Spanish galleon's treasure trove in the Caribbean waters. Will Colombia's President secure the $20 billion fortune, or will US treasure hunters claim their share? The race is on!
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letmeinimafairy · 10 months
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What happens when I spend too much time sorting out sea glass while listening to St Exupery blues
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Titanic sub suffered 'catastrophic implosion,' all five aboard dead
By Joseph Ax and Steve Gorman
23 June 2023
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June 22 (Reuters) - The five people aboard a missing submersible died in a "catastrophic implosion," a U.S. Coast Guard official said on Thursday, bringing a grim end to the international search for the vessel that was lost during a deep-sea voyage to the wreck of the Titanic.
"These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure, and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world's oceans," OceanGate Expeditions, the U.S.-based company that operated the Titan submersible, said in a statement.
"Our hearts are with these five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time."
An unmanned robot deployed from a Canadian ship discovered the wreckage of the Titan on Thursday morning about 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the bow of the century-old wreck, 2-1/2 miles (4 km) below the surface in a remote area of the North Atlantic, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said at a press conference.
"The debris field here is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vehicle," Mauger said.
The five aboard included the British billionaire and explorer Hamish Harding, 58; Pakistani-born business magnate Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son, Suleman, both British citizens; French oceanographer and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, who had visited the wreck dozens of times; and Stockton Rush, the American founder and chief executive of OceanGate, who was piloting the submersible.
Rescue teams from several countries had spent days searching thousands of square miles of open seas with planes and ships for any sign of the 22-foot (6.7-meter) Titan.
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The submersible lost contact with its support ship on Sunday morning, June 18, about an hour and 45 minutes into what should have been a two-hour descent.
Mauger said it was too early to tell when the vessel's failure occurred.
The search operation had sonar buoys in the water for more than three days and had not detected any sort of loud explosive noise during the period, Mauger said.
The buoys had picked up some sounds on Tuesday and Wednesday that temporarily offered hope the people on board the Titan were alive and trying to communicate by banging on the hull.
But officials said analysis of the sound was inconclusive and that the noises might not have emanated from the Titan at all.
"There doesn't appear to be any relation between the noises and the location of the debris field on the sea floor," Mauger said on Thursday.
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Robotic craft on the ocean floor will continue to gather evidence, Mauger said, but it is not clear whether recovering the bodies will be possible given the nature of the accident and the extreme conditions at those depths.
Five major pieces of the Titan have been found, including most of the pressure hull, officials said.
SAFETY CONCERNS
The search had grown increasingly desperate on Thursday, when the estimated 96-hour air supply was expected to run out if the Titan were still intact.
The Titanic, which sank in 1912 on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people, lies about 900 miles (1,450 km) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and 400 miles (640 km) south of St. John's, Newfoundland.
The expedition to the wreck, which OceanGate has been operating since 2021, cost $250,000 per person, according to OceanGate's website.
Questions about Titan's safety were raised in 2018 during a symposium of submersible industry experts and in a lawsuit by OceanGate's former head of marine operations, which was settled later that year.
The sweeping search covered more than 10,000 square miles of ocean - about the size of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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On Thursday, the deployment of two specialized deep-sea unmanned vehicles expanded the search to the ocean's depths, where immense pressure and pitch-black darkness complicated the mission.
The missing submersible and subsequent hunt captured worldwide attention, in part due to the mythology surrounding the Titanic.
The "unsinkable" British passenger liner has inspired both nonfiction and fiction accounts for a century, including the James Cameron blockbuster 1997 movie, which rekindled popular interest in the story.
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lonestarflight · 11 months
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"Wreckage from the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean & returned to Cape Canaveral Air Force Base for investigation. This picture shows a reconstruction of 576 bulkhead. Mission 51-L was launched from Cape Kennedy on the 28th January 1986 and exploded seventy three seconds after lift off due to a failure of one of the O-rings in a seal on the right hand solid rocket booster. A subsequent leakage of fuel resulted in the explosion which killed all seven crew members."
Science Photo Library: link
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solarzilla · 1 year
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Did some scanning of the tf movie sequel comic, The Reign of Starscream. So here's the bios of the comic's. Sorry if some of the sides of the pages are a bit blurred
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dk-thrive · 4 months
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I don’t know if you’ve been out there—I assume you take the back exit, or you prefer to lower yourself down by the curtains rather than be confronted with the wreckage out there.
— Sara Stridsberg, Valerie: or, The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel. Deborah Bragan-Turner, Translator. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, August 6, 2019) 
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alphamecha-mkii · 8 months
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The Wreck of the Von Kessler by Mike Doscher
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writing-in-memories · 6 months
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i wait for you between dreams. i struggle to find freedom amidst time's chokehold. what is permanence if not a promise that our days spent apart will always come up short? [we hunger for a life just beyond our reach.]
when you start in the wreckage it's harder to claw your way back to the things that should mean something; but how can we hold residence in a clandestine world that thrives only in the shadows? [i would live in the wastelands if it was the only place i could have you.]
we are making memories in the wind. we don't get to keep the butterflies. there is no concrete evidence we were ever here. [how close can we get before goodbye engulfs us in flames?]
you cannot recall a memory just to heal a wound, and i would carry the pain in my chest as a souvenir, before i ever gave myself license to forget you. the bruises will feel like poetry, maimed with your name; and i will hold space for you in the next life; [please find me there.]
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st-just · 1 year
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The Swamp by Sergey Vasnev
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williammarksommer · 2 years
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Wreckage
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Kodak Tmax 400iso
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transformers-unite · 6 months
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Wreckage - OC
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Want something destroyed? If so, Wreckage is the perfect cheap con for the job. Ever loyal to the Decepticon Cause, he will always try to find a way into a battle, in hopes to break down any Autobot who dares to fight back.
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