The age of polar exploration provided a wealth of information for science to sift as they laid the foundations that remain firm to this day. It was a heroic era when the simple act of going to places never before trod on by human feet would inevitably lead to scientific as well as geographic insights. The race to the pole has…
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HMS Bounty was originally a merchant ship known as Bethia, built by Blaydes Shipyard in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England in 1784. The ship was relatively small at 215 tons, she was 90 feet 10 inches long with a beam of 24 feet 4 inches and a draft of 11 feet 4 inches. She had no…
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The modern scientific technology has made large contribution to unravel the ocean’s mysteries. However, many stories recorded in history cannot be solved by mankind and end up being enigmas. One of them is the story of the most famous ghost ship Mary Caleste. This American vessel was a…
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Currently, there are only six countries that have nuclear-powered submarines: the UK, US, China, Russia, India, and France. Several other countries including Argentina, Brazil and Australia have ongoing projects in different phases to build nuclear-powered submarines. Nuclear subs work differs from…
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The story of Steven Callahan who miraculously survived 76 days adrift, without food or water supplies, inspired many. Callahan’s entire ordeal is well documented and over the past few decades has become a reference point for survival training, films, books, and…
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The British naval, navigator, and explorer, Captain James Cook, was the last of the great adventurers of the New World first discoveries era, started by Christopher Columbus. James Cook became the first person to sail almost all the world’s oceans, and when compared to other voyagers, he has sailed the…
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During the Crimean War (a war fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish), the British government hired more than two hundred newly built merchant ships belonging to private European companies to…
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William Beebe was one of the century’s leading pioneers into the oceanic world. The Brooklyn, New York, native possessed an unrelenting curiosity about the natural world around and beneath him. Throughout his dozens of books describing his various expeditions…
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The first person who was to set foot on the shores of the North Atlantic Island, now called Iceland, remains a mystery. However, it is known that human life began there long after all other habitable areas on earth were occupied. Prehistoric times are a field of …
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The first quarter of 20th Century was marked by a number of known expeditions that make a deep impact in the history of the studies of Arctic Seas and their ice regimes. In the summer of 1912, a total of three expeditions set out from Arkhangelsk and …
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The Republic of Honduras is the second-largest country in Central America. Situated between Guatemala and El Salvador to the west and Nicaragua to the south and east, this diamond-shaped republic is packed with beauty, tropical weather, and…
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