Sentences with phrase «about shipwrecks»

Rich in history, these waters hold many tales about shipwrecks, roman harbours and volcanic disturbances.

Hear about the shipwrecks, smugglers and rum runners of early days; the cedar getters and gold fossickers; and the original settlers of the Tweed, the Minjungbal tribe and their Aboriginal culture.

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is a local resource for learning about shipwrecks and other maritime history in the Santa Barbara Channel.

You can see more than 40 buildings from the era and learn more about the shipwrecks in the museum.

Find out more about shipwrecks at the local museum!

Until investigators can salvage the truth about the shipwrecks, suspicion and anxiety will plague the Mediterranean shores.

The ship is a capsule of Bronze Age trade in the eastern Mediterranean 3,300 years ago that demonstrates how underwater archaeology is not just about shipwrecks but also about life on land.

Even the story of Paul's final journey to Rome, including the narrative about the shipwreck, is full of theological motives and historical difficulties.

Using «Robinson Crusoe» as a starting point, this soulful and meditative tale about a shipwrecked man who washes up on a deserted island tackles some big themes like man vs. nature and the circle of life.

This beautiful Studio Ghibli co-production is a wordless little folk tale about a shipwrecked man and the beautiful red turtle who becomes a woman, who becomes his wife, and the life and family they build on the island.

Students could annotate the key features of a report before writing their own report in a similiar style about the shipwreck scene in The Tempest.

Uninhabited islands are often used in movies or stories about shipwrecked people, and are also used as stereotypes for the idea of «paradise».

Not exact matches

There is a story told about two Christians out alone in a boat, maybe there was a shipwreck... Each could absolve the other.

It was probably based on a design by Archimedes in the third century BC, but in about 60 BC it was lost in a shipwreck on the way to Rome.

If Robinson Crusoe were to be shipwrecked with a companion, you can be sure that they would not break into a debate about Intelligent Design upon discovering a circle of stones.

«Vainly I clung to these last beliefs as a shipwrecked sailor clings to the fragments of his vessel; vainly, frightened at the unknown void in which I was about to float, I turned with them towards my childhood, my family, my country, all that was dear and sacred to me: the inflexible current of my thought was too strong, — parents, family, memory, beliefs, it forced me to let go of everything.

William Hazlitt once wrote about a reported shipwreck in which a woman swimming for her life to a raft in the stormy sea saw that one of the half - drowned men on it was naked.

«They are entitled to be detained safely... not consigned to a corrections crucible that seems more inspired by «Lord of the Flies» than any legitimate philosophy of humane detention,» added Bhahara, comparing prison life at the East River island nestled between The Bronx and Queens to William Golding's 1954 novel about a group of shipwrecked British teens who try governing themselves on a deserted island with deadly results.

The shipwreck's resting place — about 12,500 feet deep off the eastern coast of the United States — was originally identified by a 1985 expedition led by the oceanographer Robert Ballard, and in July 1986 he and his colleagues went back for a closer look.

That led me to think about all the stuff I've collected from shipwrecks over the years.

Smithsonian Institution officials have taken a remarkable 180 - degree turn and decided to cancel a controversial exhibit of shipwreck artifacts due to ethical concerns about how the artifacts were salvaged.

Then, in December 2011, researchers began the first systematic dives to examine what appears to be the oldest known shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, radiocarbon dated to between the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C.E. Because almost nothing was known about seafaring in this time and place, the wreck promises to remake our understanding of the region and era, team members say.

The 120 lead ingots, each weighing about 33 kilograms, come from a larger load recovered 20 years ago from a Roman shipwreck, the remains of a vessel that sank between 80 B.C. and 50 B.C. off the coast of Sardinia.

If you are new to the Hastings dating scene and interested in learning more about your local history then a visit to the Shipwreck Museum is worth considering.

It speaks about religion or spirituality, and how a young man copes in the middle of the ocean with a Bengal tiger, shipwrecked for almost a year.

Open with Hank (Paul Dano), shipwrecked, about to hang himself when he notices the corpse of Manny (Daniel Radcliffe) washed ashore.

There's something majorly fishy about this high seas folk tale — and it's not the enormous whale that shipwrecks Chris Hemsworth.

From the director of Spawn comes this direct - to - video creature feature about genetically engineered, amphibious snakehead fish (meaning they can walk on land) that escape from a shipwreck and begin terrorizing a Louisiana swamp.

Adapted from a short story by Richard Connell and codirected by Kong's Ernest B. Schoedsack and character actor Irving Pichel, it has one of the most perfect plots in horror: a big - game hunter (Joel McCrea) changes his mind about how much fun his preferred sport is when he's shipwrecked on an island where a mad Russian who's grown tired of lesser game has opted to hunt human beings.

It stars Paul Dano as a man who's shipwrecked on an island all alone and is just about to hang himself when he discovers a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) that releases surprisingly useful flatulence.

The information about The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane shown above was first featured in «The BookBrowse Review» - BookBrowse's online - magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high - profile books publishing in the coming weeks.

August 24: Shipwrecks at the Golden Gate Learn about — and see — some of the ships that met an untimely fate on the treacherous rocks of the Golden Gate.

«Gnarly Neal,» owner of Gnarly Neal's Ocean Instruction, hangs ten with Peter, talking about modern advances in surf boards, the older generation of students coming to learn to ride waves, and the shipwreck that's visible from the hotel during low tide.

Learn all about the many shipwrecks in the past at Flagstaff Hill in Warrnambool and if you are here between June and September, head for Logans Beach where you might be lucky enough to see one of the many female Southern Right Whales that come here each year to give birth.

While the warm water, high visibility (about 20 metres), short distances, and turtle sightings attract beginner divers to the islands, veteran divers are seduced by shipwrecks, drift dives amidst crazy currents, and not - so - infrequent shark sightings.

Captain Jim Robinson, Captain at Shoreline Scenic Cruises and Charters, talks about the over 5,000 known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes and the many lighthouses in Door County, including one that sits on an island reminiscent of an Alfred Hitchcock movie.

We also attended Shipwreck days in July where they close down the main street for about 8 blocks and there is a huge garage sale with all types of vendors from antiques, to crafts, to food, to bikes to refinished furniture and more!

WWII Shipwrecks in Coron — In Coron alone there are at least 7 shipwrecks to discover, some of which are so large that it would easily take about 2 - 3 dives to fully seeShipwrecks in Coron — In Coron alone there are at least 7 shipwrecks to discover, some of which are so large that it would easily take about 2 - 3 dives to fully seeshipwrecks to discover, some of which are so large that it would easily take about 2 - 3 dives to fully see the area.

On New Year's Day 1937, during the Great Depression, the gambling ship SS Monte Carlo, known for «drinks, dice, and dolls», was shipwrecked on the beach about a quarter mile south of the Hotel del Coronado.

On the Cancun coast, there are three 1940 Navy shipwrecks at a depth of about 85 - 90 feet; available to advanced open - water divers.

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But what about a drift over a shipwreck in the company of reef sharks — don't worry, they won't bite.

The shipwreck remains of the lumber schooner, a product of the McWhinney and Cousins shipyards of Aberdeen, Washington, would offer researchers and underwater archeaologists an opportunity to study turn - of - the - century construction methods and learn about the social community aboard ship.

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Travelling north, stop at Maheno shipwreck for some photos and short history lesson about this famous Fraser Island icon.

Exhibits give information about the indigenous Quandamooka people, convict history, shipwrecks and sand mining.

About halfway up the «highway» we stopped at yet another amazing sight: the Maheno, a passenger ship that got shipwrecked on Fraser Island during a cyclone in 1935.

The Cleo Street Barge is a shipwreck about 200 yards offshore.

I was a bit spooked thinking about swimming around a shipwreck, but, oh what the heck — I may as well.

The town is about 25 km from Port Alfred and best known for its shipwrecks and othe...