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...good). Embarrassing. A man my age should not aim for boyishness. He should wear an old tweed jacket and wool trousers and a silk vest with a great belly under it and have wild eyebrows the size of rats and carry a knobby walking stick and smoke torpedo cigars and sit around kicking the bejabbers out of the government. A guy can do that in Scotland...
FOUND. PT 109, sunken World War II torpedo boat commanded by Navy Lieut. John F. Kennedy; by explorer Robert Ballard of the National Geographic Society, who also located the Titanic; 1,300 ft. deep in the South Pacific. The Navy said it is "likely" the find is the famous boat from which Kennedy lost two men but helped 10 others swim to shore...
...operation as their blueprint, they scouted for housing that could serve as a surveillance post overlooking refueling stations in Mellilia and in Ceuta, Spanish-controlled coastal enclaves in Morocco. The pair, sources tell TIME, also looked into purchasing a Zodiac, a motorized skiff that could be transformed into a torpedo operated by a suicide terrorist...
...century A.D. Goddio's latest topographical study indicates that Herakleion was an ancient version of Venice, a city where canals were as prevalent as roads. If Goddio seems like a wizard pulling off astonishing tricks, he has a magician's secret: a nuclear resonance magnetometer, a torpedo-shaped super-sensing device that can detect likely antiquities by measuring the relative density of submerged objects against the earth's magnetic field. As it is towed on the surface, the magnetometer relays data to the survey ship that are plotted on to a computerized grid connected to the satellite-based Global Positioning...
Could some of the 118 Russian sailors who died in the August 2000 Kursk submarine disaster have been saved? A high-level Russian source tells TIME they could have been if rescue gear aboard the ship had ever been tested. After an explosion in the ship's torpedo room ripped open the hull, 23 surviving crewmen rushed to a floating rescue capsule located in the rear of the submarine. But the capsule failed to disengage and surface. Russian investigators looking into the disaster have been vague about the reasons for the failure. But TIME's source says that "on orders...