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shipwreck

[ship-rek] / ˈʃɪpˌrɛk /










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"The shipwreck is a time capsule at the bottom of the sea," said Prof Hakan Öniz, from Akdeniz University in Turkey, who led the Mediterranean Archaeology Association expedition.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Waters has encountered complete artifacts while working with shipwreck collections, where intact objects are more common.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

The story of Fuller’s death in a shipwreck within sight of Fire Island, N.Y., is agonizing to read.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Anwar said the traffickers arrested after the April shipwreck were released on bail despite facing potential life sentences.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

By the time that George Bass became arguably the first archaeologist to dive down to a shipwreck, the art of diving had changed immeasurably from the method used by the sponge divers at Antikythera.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

It called it "one of the deadliest shipwrecks recorded" on the route.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Some shipwrecks are partly or completely buried beneath sediment, which can greatly reduce their ability to release pollutants into the surrounding water.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

The Caribbean was filled with centuries-old shipwrecks, and Mr. Dooley became enthralled by marine archaeology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Homer’s “The Odyssey” follows Odysseus, a Greek king trying to get home after the Trojan War, a journey interrupted by Cyclopes, sirens, shipwrecks and gods with grudges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

The jagged remains of shipwrecks poke through the walls of the whirlpool.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Founded in 1964 as an offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline broadcast from a ship until 1991, when it was shipwrecked off the Kent coast.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

How generations have read the Declaration of Independence, a shipwrecked crew’s island perils, the joys of soccer fandom on more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

On Friday, Italy's coastguard said it was searching for the survivors of a shipwrecked vessel carrying about 30 people in the search and a rescue area of Malta, some 50 miles southeast of Lampedusa.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

“It’s a song that I’ve always really loved, and the more I listened to it, I was like, there’s this woman who’s being shipwrecked and she’s being born again,” Edebiri says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025

He had been shipwrecked on Bermuda for nine months until new ships could be built from the remains of the Sea Venture.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

“Maybe fate brought you here for a reason,” Blackthorne is told shortly after shipwrecking in Japan.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

He was in danger of shipwrecking on that fatal sunken reef to American character, popularity.

From Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41 by Unknown

I’ve had a pretty good hardening already, what with knocking on the head, drowning, shipwrecking, starving, and walking off my legs.”

From Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor by John Schonberg

And of the risks I ran of utterly shipwrecking my character and good name and from which Thou didst rescue me. 

From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Alexander Whyte

Instead he continued: “But I ain’t the one to bear a grudge, Duval, although you did come mighty near shipwrecking my faith in human natur’.

From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by John Henry Goldfrap


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