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Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A Canadian dive team searching for the century-old wreck of the Rapid City may have stumbled upon a far rarer prize: a pristine shipwreck that could date …
Read More »6 dead, 40 missing in migrant shipwreck near Italian island of Lampedusa, says UN
At least six migrants have died and 40 were missing after a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, a spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday. The Italian Coast Guard said separately it intervened after being alerted to a rubber dinghy in distress on Tuesday, finding …
Read More »Plans afoot to raise wrecked ship that may have left B.C. with millions in gold aboard
Nearly 150 years after it left Victoria, B.C., for a final doomed voyage, preparations are being made to raise the wreck of the SS Pacific. The 225-foot paddlewheeler went down off the coast of Washington state on the rainy night of Nov. 4, 1875, en route from Victoria to San …
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