Word: iceberg
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...staircase, minus the stairs; the ship's wheel, the wood eaten away but the brass fittings gleaming like new. These were some of the eerie images that emerged last week as a camera- equipped robot wandered through the Titanic, the first visitor to enter the "unsinkable" ship since an iceberg sent her and more than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers to the bottom of the sea on her maiden voyage in April 1912. "It was a breathtaking experience," says Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who located the wreck last September some 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland...
WOODS HOLE, Mass.--Explorers visiting the Titanic 12,500 feet underwater in a tiny submarine named Alvin, fixed a 20-pound bronze plaque to the luxury liner's stern in memory of the 1,513 people who died after the ship struck an iceberg...
...massive rear section, about one-third of the 882-foot ship, had been photographed by a remote-controlled camera towed by a surface vessel during last year's expedition. But questions remained about how it had been wrenched off when the Titanic struck an iceberg...
...ship sunk early on the morning of April 15, 1912, hours after hitting an iceberg while on its maiden voyage from England. Of those aboard, 1,513 passengers and crew were killed. The 704 survivors were mainly women and children who had been put aboard lifeboats...
...that holds tuna salad be white or rye, plain or toasted? Is mayonnaise, Russian dressing, butter or mustard the correct spread for ham or turkey or roast beef? Does lettuce have any place at all in a sandwich of sliced meat, and if so, should the lettuce ever be iceberg? The Easterner regards the California predilection for mayonnaise on hamburgers as strictly an aberration, and to true New Yorkers who order street-corner hot dogs with sauerkraut, the New Orleans chili-topped Lucky Dog is just this side of gastronomic madness...