shipwrecks

Discusses the use of new technology in efforts to retrieve artifacts from the ocean floor, the exploration of shipwrecks such as the Vasa, Mary Rose, and Titanic, and the recovery of the Challenger spacecraft.

Recounts some of history's most tragic accidents at sea, including sinkings, fires, and oil spills.

"Provides comprehensive information on the Titanic tragedy and the differing perspectives accompanying it"--Provided by publisher.

Presents details of the accounts of five shipwrecks including the "Titanic," "Lusitania," "Essex," "Brother Jonathan," and the "Andrea Doria," and provides excerpts from diaries, journals, documents, and newspapers.

Explains how and why the Titanic sank in 1912, and contains timelines and personal accounts of survivors.

The author details her experiences as leader of a 1987 French/American expedition to bring back the first artifacts from the sunken Titanic, discussing the challenges she faced as the first woman to dive the supposedly unsinkable ocean liner.

The survivors of the sinking of the Titanic try to come to terms with their grief and shock a year after the disaster.

In 1841, having been shipwrecked and picked up by an American whaling ship outside Japanese territorial waters, fifteen-year-old Manjiro decides to go live in America and work towards opening trade between his country and the West.