This is a large calcite crystal recovered from a vessel that went down off the coast of Alderney, in the Channel Islands, in Elizabethan times.

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Henneberry had tied down the covering on the vessel in his backyard so firmly that it had not budged all winter long, not even through this year's blizzards.

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The drywell is a large steel pressure vessel that looks like a giant upside-down pear and holds the reactor and primary pumps, and the wetwell is a large toroidal vessel that looks like a donut.

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As the ferry boat from Matsuyama pulls in, the port director, a woman in her 40s, cycles down to the quay to greet the vessel.

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Some of the ferry's cargo of 50 lorries broke chains holding them down and as the load shifted the vessel began to list at 60 degrees in conditions described as the roughest for a decade.

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Two huge holes will be cut in the 2, 600-tonne vessel to leave its shell intact while it is stripped down.

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Boarding a vessel on the Nile is to peel back millennia and slow down to river speed as ancient temples, oxcarts and palm trees pass by, unaltered since Pharaohs ruled the roost.

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He also played the priest who goes down with the ship in "Titanic" (1997), praying with terrified passengers as the vessel slips beneath the waves.

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