Two rare bottles salvaged from the shipwreck that inspired the book and film Whisky Galore are being auctioned.
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After the shipwreck of communism came years of relative quiet- and then there came a day of fire.
The timing is part of the way the organization has been commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the shipwreck.
Mr. Arison said in a statement he was "deeply saddened" by the shipwreck and the loss to life that resulted.
The shipwreck off the Italian coast is a very real and human tragedy with consequences beyond anything our profession can assuage.
German archaeologists undertook special efforts to protect the shipwreck barrier off Greifswald.
The brother and sister said they don't blame anyone for the shipwreck.
It is possible, though unlikely, that the shipwreck will make Russia's elite behave more responsibly, perhaps even by backing, one day, a genuinely reforming government.
Meanwhile, the shipwreck remains in the water off the Tuscan coast.
The court was also expected to rule on the admissibility of the captain's phone intercepts at the police station following his detention right after the shipwreck.
The shipwreck site was located approximately 200 miles off the U.S. Gulf coast in water that was over 4, 000 feet deep, according NOAA. Until now, the area has been relatively unexplored.
The research, carried out after several years of surveying sea bottom and trial trenching, was devoted to set up a fixed network, to document the site and to excavate the shipwreck.
"The shipwreck holds more questions than answers, " he said.
The day was a somber reminder of the lives lost in the shipwreck, but it was also important for the 900 residents of Giglio to commemorate an event that changed their island forever.
Thirty-two people died in the shipwreck in January, which an official report blamed the captain of the Costa Concordia for causing, as well as assigning some responsibility to Costa, which is owned by Carnival.
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No one has been charged over the shipwreck.
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The company, which runs cruise lines such as Holland America, Cunard and Carnival, has reported stronger booking volumes as it gradually recovers from negative publicity following the shipwreck of its Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy in January.
With all he has to do Santa will be in the Shipwreck exhibit on the weekends and even on Christmas Eve until 8 p.m. then he must get on his way to deliver the presents to the good little girls and boys around the world.
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Italian prosecutors have launched an investigation into the shipwreck, detaining the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, for questioning while top Italian officials criticized the ship for sailing so close to the shore of the island of Giglio, causing it to strike a rock formation just off the coast of the island.
Casting back on his day in his nightly examination of conscience, Hopkins accused himself of a snorting, sour, unspiritual tone to some of his conversations, prayed for those who'd died, were injured, or lost loved ones in the shipwreck, but thanked God for the beauties and contrarities of nature, the tonic of outdoor exercise, and the cheer and solace of his Jesuit brothers.
After a legal battle, a Tampa judge ruled that the entire shipwreck was indeed the property of Spain.
In green design news, a new architecture competition challenged designers to transform the Costa Concordia shipwreck off the coast of Italy into a new seaside park.
The Torrey Canyon is the largest shipwreck in British waters, and as she sits a long way from shore amongst the same hazardous rocks that she ran on to, its not the easiest wreck to get to.
It is thought to be the oldest shipwreck ever discovered in Sub-Saharan Africa.
For centuries it was part of the rich fishing grounds of West Cork's O'Driscoll clan, and the locals would not have been averse to the odd shipwreck giving them an opportunity for plunder.
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Yet the episode has focused attention on cruise-ship safety, little more than a year after the Costa Concordia shipwreck in Italy that killed 32 people.
The stone in question is a piece of Icelandic calcite, and was recovered from a 16th century shipwreck in the English Channel.
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As well as manslaughter and abandoning the ship, Capt Schettino is accused of causing a shipwreck and misinforming the coast guard.
The boat was modeled on an ancient 19-meter Phoenician shipwreck excavated off the coast of Marseille.
The book begins and ends with the case of Elian Gonzalez, the unfortunate six-year-old who survived shipwreck only to fall into the hands of the relatives from hell in Miami.
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