At just fourteen, Thomas Nickerson was the youngest crewmember of the whaleship Essex. When the ship was struck and sunk by a whale, he was launched into one of the most grueling sagas of survival in maritime history.
The wreck of the Titanic haunts us to this day, a seemingly invulnerable behemoth brought down by hubris. The liner’s architectural and mechanical marvels were all for naught; as soon as the iceberg pierced the...
The Halifax Explosion was one of the most devastating human-made disasters of the early 20th century. The sheer force of the explosion leveled entire neighborhoods, forever altering the city and its people.
Some are enshrined in history through many acts of bravery. But some earn their place after only one. Grace Darling’s life wasn’t long enough for her to perform several different deeds, but she still left a mark on the world through one important choice.
"Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it."—Hunter S. Thompson. There’s always that person you know whose life is devoted to challenging fate....
Our oceans are fraught with dangers, from impenetrable fog to errant icebergs. They are vast, frigid, and foreboding, and so few tragedies quite capture the public imagination the way shipwrecks do. Here are 24 titanic...
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