shipwrecks

Asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story about a ocean liner heading into an iceberg.

Provides a brief overview of the sinking of the RMS "Titanic," in 1912, describing the ship's collision with an iceberg, the safety precautions the ship had for passengers in the event of an emergency, and the rescue efforts to save the surviving passengers.

You may have heard of the movie Titanic, but what was life on the actual Titanic really like? This engaging nonfiction book, complete with black and white interior illustrations, will make readers feel like they've traveled back in time. It covers everything from how the ship was built to what the passengers did for fun, and more. Find out interesting, little-known facts such as how the anchor was so heavy that they needed to use twenty horses to lift it and how the ship's musicians continued to play as the ship sank. The unique details, along with the clever illustrations, make this series stand out from the competition.

On the night of April 14, 1912, as it made its first voyage, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg. Then, a few hours after midnight on April 15, the ship sank thousands of feet before settling on the ocean floor. And that's where it stayed, whereabouts unknown, for the next 73 years until it was discovered by oceanographer Robert Ballard and his crew. The pictures and video Ballard brought back from the 1985 discovery helped stir new interest in the Titanic's voyage and its resting spot.

Author Clive Cussler discusses his real-life adventures as founder of the National Underwater Marine Agency, focusing on twelve incidents in which the agency sought and found sunken ships, each prefaced by a creative dramatization of the ship and the way it met its end.

Examines some of the shipwrecks that occured in the Great Lakes.

The 1960's replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth century tall sailing ship, sailed into Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and sank. For seventeen years Captain Robin Walbridge led the Bounty. Experienced and respected, he thought he could sail around the storm but his decision doomed the ship and the crew. The captain and one crew member, Claudine Christian, died. Claudine was a descendent of Fletcher Christian, who led the mutiny on the real ship, the British HMS Bounty. The rest of the crew was rescued from the sea in a dangerous mission by the Coast Guard in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds.

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was struck by a torpedo fired from a German submarine. It sank within twenty minutes, taking the lives of 1,198 people, including 128 children. The uproar following the sinking contributed to the entry of the United States into World War I. This book asserts that the Lusitania regularly carried sumuggled munitions from the United States to England, using innocent passengers as human shields. Moreover, the disaster could have been avoided had Britain sent ships to escort the liner as it entered the waters patrolled by German submarines. The controversy over what cargo the Lusitania carried, as well as the protection it should have received, has been debated by historians since its sinking.

Presents detailed accounts of some of the world's worst sea disasters including the Titanic, the Andrea Doria, and Deepwater Horizon, each with a time line, photographs, and definitions of key terms, and includes information on several additional tragedies at sea.

Harry the hammerhead shark wishes he could be any other type of shark, but when a class trip to a famous shipwreck almost ends in disaster, Harry realizes the importance of being exactly who he is.