Soon after the remote camera mounted on Ballard's undersea robot, Argo, spotted the vessel's massive boiler on the ocean floor, Ballard was calling ABC, NBC and CBS from his ship's radio.
King Henry VIII watched from Southsea Castle as his ship sank killing all but 35 of the 500-strong crew.
He had keen blue eyes, deep-set and overhung with unruly gray eyebrows, and a nose that jutted out from his face like the prow of a ship.
His ship, the Terra Nova, sailed from the city's docks laden with Welsh coal, fuel, and supplies.
It has to do with keeping his team on board, keeping the ship from sinking and the hiding of facts that are important.
Most think of Marco Polo as Venetian, but although he set off from the Italian city for his great Asian odyssey, and lived there later in life, evidence points to his origins in a ship-building family from here, the coast of Dalmatia.
On ocean crossings to Europe in 1887 and 1896, Ryder spent most of the time en route sketching the sea from the ship's deck, alighting only briefly in his destination, London, before heading home again.
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U.S. forces were in Somalia to try to capture powerful Somali warlord Mohammed Aidid from his stronghold in the war-torn capital and take him to a ship anchored off the nearby coast.
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He has been criticised over a scandal on a military training ship which led to a mutiny - bringing the charge from opponents that his defence ministry is out of control.
When one officer was finally picked up from his lifeboat, he carefully stowed the sails and the mast before climbing aboard the rescue ship.
Just over a year later, the good ship Hellas is not faring much better than Odysseus and his crew, veering from one near-disaster to the next.
This is exactly the spirit in which 61-year-old Captain Arne Rinnan answered the call from the Australian coastguard requesting he sail and rescue the 460 asylum-seekers now on board his container ship.
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