Author: United States. National Transportation Safety Board
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Category : Marine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Marine Casualty Report
Author: United States. National Transportation Safety Board
Publisher:
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Category : Marine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher:
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Category : Marine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Encyclopedia of Western Atlantic Shipwrecks and Sunken Treasure
Author: Victoria Sandz
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078642902X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
From aerial survey to zoology, Part I of this two-part encyclopedia covers all aspects of underwater archeology, treasure hunting and salvaging. For example, entries are included for different types of artifacts, notable treasure hunters, the various salvaging equipment, and techniques in mapping and excavating. Part II covers the shipwrecks themselves, dividing them into 13 geographical categories. Beginning with the northernmost category (Canada) and ending with the southernmost (South America), every known shipwreck--both identified and unidentified--receives an entry in alphabetical order under its appropriate geographical category. Entries are by name, such as Andrea Gail, Titanic, and Queen Ann's Revenge. Unidentified is used when a shipwreck's name remains unknown. Entries give the nationality (e.g., Spanish, British, American), type (schooner, frigate, brig are three), function (examples: slave transportation, piracy, fishing), location and history of the shipwreck.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078642902X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
From aerial survey to zoology, Part I of this two-part encyclopedia covers all aspects of underwater archeology, treasure hunting and salvaging. For example, entries are included for different types of artifacts, notable treasure hunters, the various salvaging equipment, and techniques in mapping and excavating. Part II covers the shipwrecks themselves, dividing them into 13 geographical categories. Beginning with the northernmost category (Canada) and ending with the southernmost (South America), every known shipwreck--both identified and unidentified--receives an entry in alphabetical order under its appropriate geographical category. Entries are by name, such as Andrea Gail, Titanic, and Queen Ann's Revenge. Unidentified is used when a shipwreck's name remains unknown. Entries give the nationality (e.g., Spanish, British, American), type (schooner, frigate, brig are three), function (examples: slave transportation, piracy, fishing), location and history of the shipwreck.
The Cape Horners' Club
Author: Adrian Flanagan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472912535
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has exacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth's surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water and weather patterns at the bottom of the world and funnels them into a maritime superhighway a mere 500 miles wide, building massive seas and accelerating wind speeds to hurricane strength. Currents rip at rates that defeat powerful engines. These legendarily treacherous conditions were enough to secure Cape Horn's reputation as the ultimate in ocean violence; the supreme test of sailors and ships. It is the oceanic equivalent of the climbers' Everest, and the challenge to some became irresistible. The roll call of sailors who have managed to round the Horn east-about (and more rarely, head to wind and west-about) glitters with the names of sailing legends: Vito Dumas, Marcel Bardiaux, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, Bernard Moitessier and Chay Blyth. This book recounts the history of the Cape through the stories of the people who've taken it on and made it round – the Cape Horners' Club. From the first recorded single-hander in 1934 (Al Hansen, who was lost shortly afterwards and his body never found), we follow these very different protagonists as they pursue the ultimate goal while battling almost overwhelming odds. Woven through their stories is a history of the Cape, from its discovery to its use as a trading corridor until the opening of the Panama Canal, to its more recent role as a pure challenge for the best yachtsmen and yachtswomen in the world. Changes in weather prediction and navigation have had a huge impact, but the pressure for ever-faster times has never been greater.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472912535
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has exacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth's surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water and weather patterns at the bottom of the world and funnels them into a maritime superhighway a mere 500 miles wide, building massive seas and accelerating wind speeds to hurricane strength. Currents rip at rates that defeat powerful engines. These legendarily treacherous conditions were enough to secure Cape Horn's reputation as the ultimate in ocean violence; the supreme test of sailors and ships. It is the oceanic equivalent of the climbers' Everest, and the challenge to some became irresistible. The roll call of sailors who have managed to round the Horn east-about (and more rarely, head to wind and west-about) glitters with the names of sailing legends: Vito Dumas, Marcel Bardiaux, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, Bernard Moitessier and Chay Blyth. This book recounts the history of the Cape through the stories of the people who've taken it on and made it round – the Cape Horners' Club. From the first recorded single-hander in 1934 (Al Hansen, who was lost shortly afterwards and his body never found), we follow these very different protagonists as they pursue the ultimate goal while battling almost overwhelming odds. Woven through their stories is a history of the Cape, from its discovery to its use as a trading corridor until the opening of the Panama Canal, to its more recent role as a pure challenge for the best yachtsmen and yachtswomen in the world. Changes in weather prediction and navigation have had a huge impact, but the pressure for ever-faster times has never been greater.
Lower Cape Meadows-Cape May Point Feasibility Study
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Category : Cape May Point (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Publisher:
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Category : Cape May Point (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania
Author: Samuel Hazard
Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Delaware Coast from Cape Henlopen to Fenwick Island, Rehoboth Beach/Dewey Beach Interim Feasibility Study
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Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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The Public Response to the Secretary of Transportation's Rail Services Report, Rail Service in the Midwest and Northeast Region
Author: United States. Rail Services Planning Office
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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The Royal Naval Medical Service
Author: Jack Leonard Sagar Coulter
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Publisher:
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Category : Medicine, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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The Syren & Shipping Illustrated
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania
Author:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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