The despotic fleet, one of the main adversaries of the Dioscorian agents 🔥 The Hidden Isle
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I can't be the first person to make this observation, but it's just struck me that Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick and Thomas Blanky from The Terror represent the opposite ends of a spectrum—"How well do you cope with losing your leg to a huge white beast that destroys hubristic seafaring men?"
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Hi, I’m new here. Here’s a little ship with some tall icebergs.
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On the shore by Winslow Homer
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"What ship? All I see is ropes."—Oban, Argyll, Scotland, UK 2023
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Marek Rużyk 🎨🖌 @marekruzyk
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In Strange Seas (detail), c. 1889.
George Willoughby Maynard (American, 1843–1923)
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The Titanic of the Pacific: A tale of disaster, survival, and ghosts.
Issue no. 138 of The Atavist is now live:
Those onboard were stunned when none of the surviving women would get in the rafts. They believed that with ships in sight, rescue might be imminent. If it wasn’t, the women had little reason for hope. Many had watched their husbands and children die. They preferred to stay where they were. Some began to sing “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” a hymn that in just a few years would become famous for reportedly being the last song sung aboard the Titanic.
Men readied the rafts. The first group to leave consisted mainly of crew members, including chief cook Samuel Hancock. After clearing the ship around 10 a.m., the men rowed toward the distant vessel—only one seemed to remain—but then lost sight of it. Hancock knew there was a northerly current and told the men to keep the shoreline in sight.
Peter Peterson stood on the Valencia’s deck, watching as the topmast came crashing down and the hurricane deck finally caved in. It was now or never—the last raft needed to leave the ship. Captain Johnson tried to change the women’s minds. “This is the last chance,” he said. One replied, “We might just as well die on the ship as die on the raft.”
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Sunshine Skyway Bridge Accident (1980) photo: Eric Mencher
A 1976 Buick Skylark belonging to Florida resident, Richard Hornbuckle, rests where it skidded to a stop just 14 inches from the edge of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which was struck by a freighter on May 9, 1980.
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