Awesome Pictures of Shipwrecks and Sea Disasters
They were proud and beautiful once, confident in the face of anything the sea could throw at them - and now they haunt the coastlines with their sadness and beauty (but of the different kind):
The history of the "American Star" is nicely documented on this page.
This is how the ship looked right after it snapped in two:
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in 2000:
now gone.
Cherry Venture (more info)
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Ships in Peril, and Ships Perishing
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t-bone collision:
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Peru in 2006:
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Titanic-style sinking in Antarctic waters
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(Sinking of "Titanic"
Pasha Bulker - a huge container ship grounded in Australia
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More Container Ships in Peril
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Shipwrecks claimed by the desert
shipwrecks of the Aral Sea
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Rest in Pieces
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:
Saddam Hussein's private yacht "Al Mansur" in 2003
The Sadness & The Beauty
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The majestic USS "Oriscany"
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the inferno inside
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Russia - Battleship "Murmansk",
Sverdlov class:
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Most Photographed (and Beautiful) Shipwreck:
The "American Star" off Hesperides
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a similar ship SS United States in 1952
ship graveyard:
clipped from www.darkroastedblend.com
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