Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 and 13,000 ft. beneath the surface, and returned last week to explore...
...single shoe, and a shiny-handled safe sporting an ornate crest. Alvin was called in to try and open the safe with its robot arm, but failed. Still on the agenda were plans to investigate new areas of the Titanic's main section, as well as debris from the wreck. "I'm tickled by how well Jason Jr. has done," said Ballard. "We're really in great shape...
...about a sophisticated Wall Street scam and its murderous repercussions in far less swank parts of New York City. The wrongdoers are exposed, but scarcely brought to book, by an honest cop who sees connections between the deaths of a multimillionaire and a small-time restaurateur and manages to wreck his marriage through obsession with an unwinnable fight against evil...
Davis said it was "a particularly sad thing" that school and college groups were cancelling planned tours abroad. His only reason for not recommending a trip would be concern that "Mom will be an anorexic wreck" from worrying...
...BRITISH merchant-ship bound for the New World foundered in a storm off the coast of the Bermudas, but the crew and bounty were magically spared. Taking the famous wreck of the Sea-Adventure and its miraculous outcome as his departure, Shakespeare wove his most topical, yet least earthbound drama, The Tempest...