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Not Claustrophobic, With $60K? See the Titanic

Kate Schwartz — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:15:05 CST

If your favorite line from all of cinema is "I'm the king of the world," this opportunity to be king of the deep will probably delight: a two-week cruise, whose highlight is a dive to see the Titanic. Yep, the Titanic that sits at the bottom of the Atlantic, off...

Shipwreck Hoarding $200M in Silver Found in Atlantic

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:18:02 CDT

Some $200 million in silver has been sitting at the bottom of the sea for decades, and a US salvage operation has just discovered the sunken ship carrying it. The find promises to be the biggest haul ever of precious metal from a shipwreck. The British SS Gairsoppa was sunk...

Katia Strengthens Into Hurricane

Polly Davis Doig — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:31:43 CDT

Adding insult to the East Coast's injury, there's a new hurricane in town: Tropical Storm Katia (ahem, another of those infamous K-hurricanes) has strengthened overnight into a Category 1 hurricane, reports the LA Times . “Additional strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours and Katia could become a major hurricane...

Recordings Recovered From Crashed Air France Jet

Mon, 16 May 2011 08:02:40 CDT

French investigators have recovered all the flight data and cockpit voice recordings from the recorders of an Air France jet found in the Atlantic nearly two years after it crashed, they said today. The recorders were located by underwater robots and hoisted from depths of some 13,000 feet earlier...

Air France Recorder Pulled From Atlantic

Polly Davis Doig — Tue, 03 May 2011 06:28:33 CDT

On the heels of recovering the black box from the doomed Air France flight that fell out of the sky off the Brazilian coast nearly two years ago, French investigators have pulled the cockpit recorder from the depths of the Atlantic, reports the AP. It's not yet certain whether the...

85-Year-Old Sails Atlantic ... on a Raft

Kevin Spak — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:04:29 CDT

Anthony Smith was in high spirits as arrived in St. Maarten yesterday, and why not? After all, he’d just realized a boyhood dream, sailing a 40-foot raft on a two-month journey across the Atlantic with the help of three of his friends—at the ripe young age of 85. “Some...

Hurricane Earl Downgraded to Category 3

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:08:54 CDT

Hurricane Earl is weakening slightly but it's still packing winds near 125 mph as it blows toward North Carolina's coast. Earl has been downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane, and it's expected to pass the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a powerful storm tonight. New hurricane and tropical storm...

Mystery Swirls Around Atlantic Garbage Patch

Kate Schwartz — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:10:00 CDT

Though you may be more familiar with its more famous cousin, the Texas-size Great Pacific Garbage Patch, there does indeed exist a mass of tiny plastic pieces in the Atlantic. But the North Atlantic Gyre is turning out to be the more mysterious of the two: A two-decades-long study released...

Be a Good American: Eat This Fish

Kate Schwartz — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:48:00 CDT

How to make Uncle Sam proud: Buy American, fly a flag, eat...lionfish? That third one is, indeed, what one government agency would like you to do. The voracious, aggressively invasive lionfish is wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, off the Florida Keys, and along the Atlantic as far north as...