5 failed voyages doomed from the start
Who has never been daunted by the idea of packing gear for an extended field op? You have to make a list of everything you will need or you think…
A brave Titanic officer somehow survived to rescue troops from Dunkirk
On Apr. 15, 1912, Charles Lightoller was the second officer aboard the ill-fated Titanic. After helping as many passengers and crew as he could into lifeboats, he refused an order to escape on one of the final boats to make it off the ship.…
This is how the Titanic was discovered on an unrelated top-secret mission
The RMS Titanic was billed as “unsinkable.” Many conflicting reasons have been proposed as to why but, nonetheless, they were proven wrong. When the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, she took wi…
The secret Cold War mission that helped America find the Titanic
Can you imagine having found one of the most famous shipwrecks in history and not being able to talk about it? Robert Ballard can. Ballard was the lead oceanographer for…
You can soon sail on the Titanic II, here’s how that could end in disaster
Long ago, ancient Greeks told the tale of the titan, Atlas, who once tried to defy Zeus. He failed spectacularly and, for his hubris, was doomed to carry the sky for eternity as punishment. Later, Atlas tried to defy the gods once more by attempting…