Sentences with phrase «holes in the wrecked»
THE Russian research vessel Mstislav Keldysh is steaming towards the Norwegian Sea this week, on a mission to plug up the holes in the wrecked nuclear submarine Komsomolets.
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This month, the expedition aboard the Mstislav Keldysh will plug holes in the wreck, then fill it with a gel derived from chitin, the main component of prawn shells, and with plastic bags full of water.
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At last count, he's been fly - fishing out in Jackson Hole, deep sea wreck diving in the Atlantic Ocean, quail hunting in Georgia and, best of all, he climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro — all within that past year alone!
He has led a normal, respectable life as a teacher, an education administrator and able businessman, but in his attachment to the wreck in the blue hole he is one of the giddiest.
Because of this cargo, it can be argued that the wreck in the hole was not a revenue ship at all, or at least that it was not bound back for Spain at the time; yet, strangely, 64 years ago Cayman Islanders who were scrounging the area for scrap brass did find about $ 6,000 in gold bars and coins near the southwest edge of the blue hole.
Roads, bridges, rail, water and sewerage systems and many dams are in dangerous disrepair around the country; large sections of New Orleans remain wrecked and highly vulnerable; and even ground zero of 9/11 remains a hole in the ground because of endless bickering.
It is more of a hill that was wrecked by an earthquake in the 80's leaving a huge hole in the center.
Options include The Baths in Virgin Gorda, historic wrecks for diving, Norman Island, and the famous watering holes of Jost van Dyke.
An island of superlatives, Long Island in the Bahamas is home to the world's deepest blue hole, one great wreck and colorful offshore islands.
There's also deep walls, fascinating wrecks, blue holes, tunnels, caverns and some of the best shark diving in the world.
I met the amazing Dana Yoerger of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1993 while covering Robert Ballard's exploration of the wreck of the Lusitania south of Ireland for TV Guide in my pre-Times life.