Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean

for shipbuilding companies around Europe, was the crossing of the great Atlantic Ocean. These competitions would rowel up the people of Europe, giving them more reason to believe that mankind can perform anything. The Atlantic voyages, were the space race of the 1800’s, each company tried to make the biggest ship, and the fastest ship, to make it across the Atlantic in record time. However, even in this golden age of Atlantic travel, many problems slowly brewed across Europe. Even in the races, captains

is the perfect, picturesque town. The million dollar houses are immaculate, the ocean views are stunning, and if that’s not enough, the Portland Head Light Lighthouse provides it with just the right amount of tourist appeal. The Portland Head Light is the oldest lighthouse in Maine and has been guiding traffic into Portland Harbor for more than two-hundred years. The idea for the lighthouse came about after a shipwreck in 1787, but wasn’t completed until after the First Congress passed the Lighthouse

beautiful sharks in the ocean. The blacktip shark gets its name because it’s fins and tail have a blacktip. The blacktip shark is one of the few sharks that have a different color on its fins or tail. There is many interesting facts about the blacktip shark. The blacktip sharks can live worldwide in different oceans. Unlike a great white shark that like to live in cooler water or unlike a greenland shark that lives only in greenland, a blacktip sharks lives Atlantic ocean,Indian ocean,and both Western and

Titanic’s bunkers. The stokers of the fire were ordered to control the fire at sea to make sure that it wasn't a problem. A theory is that the fire from the coal became uncontrollable and that made the Titanic attempt a full speed crossing across the Atlantic Ocean. The theory also says that this was what led

smallest province of Canada, which sits along its east coast. The province's mainland, which includes numerous bays and estuaries. is a peninsula, which is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with Cape Breton Island and Sable Island to the northwest of the mainland. It is for this reason, that this province is often called "the ocean playground." If you're a nature lover, you'll certainly find Nova Scotia a wonderful place to explore. Moose, deer, porcupine and black bear inhabit most of the mainland

Why Was the Big Beast So Important??? Was the Titanic one of the most devastating shipwrecks? In 1912, the largest man-hand built ship set sail for New York City. On her voyage she sank in the North Atlantic Ocean at 2:20am suffering the loss of about 1,517 people.(Welsh). Some basic facts about the big beast that may help, she weighed about 46,000 pounds. She was 882 feet log with nine decks for the crew and passenger plus another two for all of the equipment. She was carrying 3,500 people when

A mermaid is a legendary creature that lives inside water, mainly the ocean (Mermaids, 2017). Mermaids have to types of sex’s, a female which is called a Mermaid and a male which is called a Merman (Mermaids, 2017). Merman sightings are less common than female sightings (Mermaids, 2017). Mermaids have a head and an upper body of a female human being and a tail of a fish (Mermaid, 2017). The legend of mermaids appear in many cultures worldwide, including the east of Africa, Europe and Asia (Mermaid

For centuries, various planes, ships, and people have been lost without an explanation in a notorious area known as the Bermuda Triangle. Many theories and explanations have been created to explain why strange occurrences have occurred in the past and present. With so much mystery, I have always wondered what is causing so many strange cases in that one particular area; are aliens behind all of this? Is it human error? Or maybe it’s the strange weather? As humans, curiosity drives us to find answers

The Lusitania was a ship that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, several times, during World War One. The tragic accident took the lives of many, and pushed America to enter the war. In “Dead Wake”, accounts from the press, the captain, and passengers make up a lot of the text. The novel explains the events leading up to the sinking, how there was much worry that a German U-boat would attack from below. Sadly it did, and passengers died. Despite being warned about the dangers, many chose to sail in

Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida. When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest,” which some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermuda shipwreck, may have enhanced the area’s aura of mystery. A pattern allegedly