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...riverboats and pawed through the dusty corners of historical museums. The most promising sources are objects that were originally sealed against moisture, such as navigational compasses, hourglasses, sextants and telescopes. Other possibilities include buried time capsules, hollow building cornerstones, miniature globes and sealed containers salvaged from a ship that sank in the Missouri River in the mid-1800s. Two venerable Connecticut companies, which have manufactured hollow brass military buttons since the War of 1812, have offered to supply buttons spanning two centuries. "This gives us samples from many different periods of time," says Poths, "and all manufactured in one place...
...only won a score of a 7.90—not enough to put the Crimson in the top ten. Staring at the scoreboard, Harvard’s coach gasped. Sixteen individual hearts collectively sank...
...know what happened," said Peter Willcox, skipper of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior. "There were some loud bangs, the boat shook and we sank within four minutes." The 130-ft. converted trawler was berthed in Auckland, New Zealand, last week, preparing to lead a protest of French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti. Two explosions ripped a 6-ft. by 8-ft. hole in the hull, scuttling the vessel stern first in 24 ft. of water and killing Ship Photographer Fernando Pereira. The twelve other people reportedly on board escaped unharmed...
...very small boy, his father took him in a boat out into the bay and threw him in, to teach the boy to swim. Kawamoto struggled and tried to grab the side of the boat, but his father pushed him off with a pole. Only when the boy sank did his father pull him back. "I asked him why he did not help me sooner. I thought my father was trying to drown me. Later I understood that he was really trying to save me, that I would only learn to swim if I came that close to death...
...about 70 lbs. Divers also found the archetypal treasures of a shipwreck: wooden chests spilling over with coins. According to McHaley, the Atocha's inventory includes more than 1,000 silver bars, which were bound for Spain from Cuba and other New World colonies in 1622, when the ship sank in a hurricane's high winds and raging seas. Estimates of the worth of the booty range as high as $400 million. Some local skeptics disagree with this giddy estimate, but, says one, "no one can say that this isn't the greatest hit of all time...