Shipwreck may be just what Stern ordered
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DAVID STERN LIKENS an NBA season to &quot;1,200 episodes of reality programming.&quot; In tomorrow&#39;s presentations of &quot;Survivor, NBA Arena,&quot; Shaq promises to be a brick wall when Kobe the Corvette drives the lane, after the Pistons drop in on an Indianapolis crowd
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By D'Alto, Nick  In the hands of climatologists and historians, centuries-old ships' logs are revealing past-and maybe future-weather. "...9 o'clock, gale still increasing...  At 11, a perfect hurricane of wind and rain...1/2 past 11, main topmast blown over side...ship labouring...
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"Spain has decided to go to (the) courts to claim its right in case the discovery is Spanish"  The Spanish government said Thursday it has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against an American firm over a shipwreck the company has found laden with a colonial-era treasure.If the vessel was Spanish or was removed from Spanish waters, any treasure would belong to Spain, Spain says.'Odyssey Marine Exploration has been requested in a letter to provide information concerning the identity of the ship and the material recovered, and has not responded with the details we were asking for,' said Susana Tello, Culture Ministry spokeswoman. Read more
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 31--The U.S. Coast Guard today reported a second possible sighting of Jim Gray's sailboat late Tuesday.
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VANCOUVER - A retired Canadian Navy submarine commander says it&#39;s unlikely that rust on the HMCS Chicoutimi played a part in a fire that led to the death of one sailor, and left another in critical condition.
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By Lee Graves, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 16--John Crews wouldn't mind finishing his fishing tournament the way Stephen Carr was supposed to start his.   With hoopla befitting a hero.
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A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.
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The search for sunken treasure in deep-sea shipwrecks may sound like the stuff of children's adventure stories rather than corporate boardrooms.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Two turns of a screw caused the spectacular crash of a Sea King helicopter onto the deck of a Canadian destroyer at sea last year.
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Quarterly results suggest conditions may not be as grim as initially thought for the cruise company.
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
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A claimed motive for the hijacking of a tugboat off Somalia may have at least a droplet of truth to it.
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The Coast Guard lowered a salvage team to a freighter that broke in two pieces when it ran aground off Alaskaâs coast, seen as a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles.
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Turkish authorities were investigating Monday a shipwreck, in which a Bulgarian cargo ship capsized in their territorial waters next to the border with Bulgaria, causing no injuries, the Info Radio reported.
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Is a sea change about to occur? Don't count on it.
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Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later. A Roman shipmaster inadvertently did something just like it 2,000 years ago off southern Greece, experts said late Thursday.
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By Tom LochnerLegend is full of unsolved mysteries of ships that vanish without a trace. Port Costa offers a variation on the theme: the ship that appeared, apparently out of nowhere.