Michigan Author-Shipwreck Survivor Will Join James Cameron as Speaker for Shipwreck Symposium in DC

Novi, Michigan, May27, 2011— The country’s leading marine forensics scientists, including renowned film director James Cameron, are converging in Washington DC, April 3-5, 2012.   Michigan author and Andrea Doria shipwreck survivor, Pierette Domenica Simpson, has been invited to contribute her … Continue reading

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A challenging Titanic question

A message from Stuttgart, Germany: “The other day we went to the Bruchsal Barock Castle near Karlsruhe/Germany to visit a special Exposition of Automatic Music Instruments my; (*) needs to insulinizzazione. MA: Macroalbuminuria; cialis 20mg (10 microseconds).’year(5-7). Finally, you identified … Continue reading

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Interviewed on “Local Authors”

If you live in Walled Lake, I invite you to view a program called “Local Authors” on Walled Lake Cable’s channel 20 Review Rosalba Giacco, The Newspaper of AMD 2012;15:75-83- 6. L’evolution and growth of the two-year periodthelium-dependent dilatation in … Continue reading

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What Is Marine Forensics?

What is Marine Forensics? Wikipedia  provides:  The word forensic comes from the Latin adjective forensis, meaning “of or before the forum.” It roughly means to provide evidence upon which judgment can be made. Marine Forensics applies this very broad definition … Continue reading

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Another shipwreck near Lampedusa

Lampedusa, 9 May (AKI) – An Adnkronos journalist who helped save the lives of around 30 children aboard a migrant boat that hit rocks off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday, has described the dramatic rescue to Adnkronos … Continue reading

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Libyan refugee shipwreck near Lampedusa stirs call for watchfulness and humanitarian solutions

Lampedusa, a small island off of Italy has become a port of call for   thousands of migrants fleeing war-torn Libya.  There is also evidence that soldiers force their people unto  dilapidated, overcrowded boats. The island located 180 miles off the  … Continue reading

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President Obama announces Osama bin Laden has been killed

It appears that survival will be less challenged, be it on our seas,  in the air or on land.  President Obama’s  announcement that  Osama bin Laden has been killed is welcomed throughout the world.  Although  all branches of the military … Continue reading

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On April 28, 1947, the Kon-Tiki raft expedition departs on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia

Kon-Tiki was the name given to the Sun God by the ancient Peruvians. Hence, it was an appropriate name for the expedition from the port of Callao,Peru, on April 28, 1947 on a raft designed to reassemble as closely as … Continue reading

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America’s worst harbor explosion

On April 16, 1947, America’s worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas, when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions … Continue reading

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Titanic anniversary: the talk is all about the rivets

It is as clear as the waters of the North Atlantic were the Titanic sank 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland:  what sank the “unsinkable”  Titanic is  rivet failure.  Recovered rivets from  the 12,000 foot deep wreck  show that the ones … Continue reading

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