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#shipwreck — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. ‘The #Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save #Shackleton’s #Endurance

    Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the #climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area

    ^ interesting #conservation challenge

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #science #seafloor #shipwreck #ecology #climateCatastrophe

  2. Shipwreck's Wake: Zeno's Philosophy Takes Root in Athens

    How a shipwreck in 300 BCE made Zeno of Citium leave his merchant life and start Stoic philosophy in Athens. Learn about the impact.

    #ZenoOfCitium, #Stoicism, #AncientGreece, #Philosophy, #Shipwreck

    newsletter.tf/shipwreck-zeno-s

  3. "Weatherbeaten sailors laugh about Tom’s incompetence, trading shipwreck stories of their own over their glasses of ouzo."—Andrew Printer for Narratively #longreads

    narratively.com/p/my-chaotic-a

    #sailing #shipwreck #alcoholic #memoir #writing

  4. On 12 Nov 1901, the three masted wooden Barquentine Hampton, a collier owned by McCormicks of Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire), coal merchants, was wrecked between Seapoint and Salthill. She lay almost alongside the railway wall for some time and was apparently broken up on the shore. The National Library of Ireland. No known copyright restrictions.

    #Monkstown #Seapoint #Dublin #Ireland #20thCentury #Shipwreck