Word: sunkenness
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...Braak is a spectacular new find, but scarcely the only one. Other salvors are finding sunken treasure by using computerized navigational devices and techniques developed for oil exploration and military navigation. Magnetometers, often used to detect ferrous metals, can pinpoint such common shipboard fittings as iron nails, barrel staves and anchors...
...language (some pieces have been translated by William Weaver, the rest by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright) is straightforward, with nary a hint of narrative nudging. A few seem little more than sketches; in A Ship Loaded with Crabs, for instance, a group of young boys explores a half-sunken hulk, repulses a boarding by a rival gang and then swims off. But that is not quite all. A resonance lingers; the sound of splashing and the play of light and shadow remain to tease the imagination. If he had never gone beyond the skill displayed in these early efforts...
...have been hiking in Nepal or holding regular summer jobs, Brooke spent four weeks on location in Nassau for a made-for-TV movie called Wet Gold. She plays a waitress who goes on a treasure hunt with her boyfriend, a scuba diver and the salty survivor of a sunken ship (Burgess Meredith, 75). The two younger men fight over Brooke and of course everybody rights over the gold. "She's quite a girl," says Meredith of his coed costar. "She has no movements or moods that are not lovely...
...forestall a disaster, the divers began carving a 10 ft. by 17 ft. hole in the hull. A giant floating crane operated by Smit Tak International, a Rotterdam company that often retrieves sunken ships from places like the war-torn Persian Gulf, will be towed out to sea on a platform to pluck out the barrels gingerly, an operation that will probably take about a month. Declares Smit Tak International's managing director, Klaas Reinigert: "Compared with all the other jobs we've done, this one's easy." Despite the intense publicity that the sinking...
...unfortunately out of sight for most of the hundreds who gathered for her first open-to-the-public appearance: Ferraro and Mondale, speaking from the deeply sunken Halladie Plaza, could be seen only by people standing at the front of the crowd above. Nevertheless, the cheers were louder and longer during her short address than during her running mate...