Word: bows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowing water to pour in. He also brought back evidence that the ship broke apart not when she hit bottom, as he had thought when viewing the first Titanic images last September, but as she sank: the stern, which settled on the bottom almost 1,800 ft. from the bow, had swiveled 180 degrees on its way down...
...recalls Ballard. "We were putting our nose right up against this massive wall." Later, viewing the mangled remnants of the severed stern through Alvin's Plexiglas porthole, he was shaken. "You really felt it when you were there, the sheer carnage," he says. "It looked violent and destructive. The bow is majestic. It still has some nobility. But the stern...
...more intelligent mammals, seem to have recognized the tuna-fishing threat. As recently as 15 years ago, says Veteran Tuna Skipper Harold Medina, they could be rounded up easily with a couple of skiffs propelled by small outboards. Sometimes they would even play in the mother ship's bow wave. Now, in areas where dolphins have been heavily fished, they are much more difficult to corral, forcing the fishermen to resort to more and higher-powered chase boats. Mexican fishermen call these recently sophisticated dolphins the "untouchables," because they disappear at the first sight of a fishing boat. The discerning...
...first of twelve dives planned for the current mission, designed to survey the Titanic while testing new imaging equipment. As they neared the sea floor, Ballard said, "we came in on a wall of black steel. It seemed endless in all directions." Alvin skirted the Titanic's knife-edge bow, where the great liner's name was obscured by "rivers of rust," then explored the foredeck and port side, where the scientists spotted portholes, the glass unbroken. They saw where the Titanic had split apart, just behind the third smokestack...
...knavishness of modern man." By the early 18th century, a Swiss visitor to England noted a decline in hospitality: "When the people see a well-dressed person in the streets, especially if he is wearing a braided coat, a plume in his hat, or his hair tied in a bow, he will, without doubt, be called 'French dog' 20 times perhaps before he reaches his destination...