shipwreck
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Researchers in France and Croatia analyzed the protective coating on the Roman Republic shipwreck Ilovik-Paržine 1, which sank about 2,200 years ago off the coast of what is now Croatia.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
At the time, it was hailed as the world's oldest-known intact shipwreck.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
In Homer’s poem, the goddess Calypso rescues Odysseus from a shipwreck and keeps him on her island for seven years, even as he longs for Penelope and Ithaca.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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
Many of the world’s first shipwreck discoveries were made by people who practiced one of the oldest of all professions—sponge diving.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Why do shipwrecks hold such an irresistible lure?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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
One of the most famous polar shipwrecks has been filmed in detail on the sea floor for the first time.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025
Unlike at calm Rongelap, where the Warrior could get as close as half a mile to shore, the water around Mejato was thick with coral and sported two visible shipwrecks to warn Willcox away.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
While the number of ships that lie sunken on the ocean floor is truly amazing, so too is the number of shipwrecks that have been discovered and, in many cases, excavated.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
British mariners shipwrecked on Palau some 50 years earlier had helped another confederation, the Koror people, in war with a feuding village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned around one-fourth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
“It looks like two classically shipwrecked people,” Smith said, calling it a “highly questionable decision that these two people on that obviously incapacitated vessel were still in any kind of fight.”
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025
The survivors may have been subject to protections provided to shipwrecked sailors, or to those given to troops who have been rendered unable to continue fighting.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
The morning after they landed, Aeneas with his friend, the faithful Achates, left his wretched shipwrecked followers to try to find out what part of the world they were in.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
“Maybe fate brought you here for a reason,” Blackthorne is told shortly after shipwrecking in Japan.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
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
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
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