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25 Haunting Shipwrecks Around the World
Twisted Sifter is a web site with three simple goals. Provide content that is interesting, funny or creative, use BIG pictures whenever possible and to keep their readers up-to-date with what's popular online. Gadling found this gallery of 25 haunting shipwrecks at Twisted Sifter who tells us
"Fellow blogger Tom Moran from Urban Ghosts inspired this post. His excellent article on 'Ship Graveyards: Abandoned Ships, Boats and Shipyards' sent me on a quest to find some incredible photographs of shipwrecks around the world.
The United Nations estimates that there are more than 3 million shipwrecks on the ocean floor [Source: Wikipedia]. These once mighty vessels, both sunken and beached, are a haunting reminder that nothing lasts forever. These beautiful ships used to rule the seas they traveled. Now they serve as a window into our past."
In the gallery below, 25 Haunting Shipwrecks From Around The World, there are shipwrecks everywhere from the Canary Islands to Grand Cayman to Portugal in all shapes and sizes.
Gallery: 25 Haunting Shipwrecks Around the World
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Aleida Apr 25th 2011 1:26PM
3 MILLION shipwrecks?! That's insane! I just finished looking through the gallery and those pictures, while beautiful, are definitely creepy. Is there a way to find out the story behind each one? For example, the name of the ship and what happened?
Edgar Longenecker Apr 21st 2011 1:54AM
Retire the nationl debts, of the entire world... go get them. They can all be floated with compressors, bottles of compressed air, inflatable baloons, etc... what a treasure hunt...!!! Where's Jacque Cousteau, et al ....???
J.E.B. Apr 21st 2011 2:39AM
Edgar, you make it sound so easy. Why don't you show us how easy it is and raise the Titanic, which is down 2/12 miles, or how about the WW II USS Yorktown which is sunk in 3 miles of water? Take your compressors, inflatable ballons, etc. Go get em, tiger!
Paul Apr 22nd 2011 12:09PM
I'll probably disappoint you, but Cousteau is dead ((
It's quite interesting to know their story, why do they stay on surface without any soul aboard?
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dozzzl May 5th 2011 10:18AM
When I was a kid, me and parents had a holidays on the Black Sea (Ukraine) and one diver told me that he found almost 30 sunken ships not so far the southern coast.
Paul May 5th 2011 10:21AM
Plan to see sunken and abandoned ships on the Black Sea? Visit this site http:ua-traveling.com
I'll provide you with information.
Edgar Longenecker May 26th 2011 1:36AM
Who even suggested that raising these wrecks, whole, or, in pieces, would be a walk in the park...? "Go get em tiger," is talking to himself; defeated, without trying; as if, trying to inspire, claiming the resource, would be a bad thing, worthy of such derision... Better that the govern mentals of the world, find a way to clean up their act, and, instead of being in the business, of murdering each others' citizens, in wars, and, with enough of their heads, put together, they might come up with one whole brain; and, figure out how to clean up the planet, and, put their toys away. As for the Titanic, or any other,which, found their way down there, if, they were full of gold, you can bet, driveby looters, would already have looted them... And, air, to displace water, wouldn't make for buoyancy... use pingpong balls, Tiger... Bon Voyage.....see ya, when you come up for air... Edgrrr...
Edgar Longenecker May 26th 2011 2:04AM
Paul....as if, where's JacqueCousteau, when we need him, mattering that he's dead...? Where's the real Abraham Lincoln, when we need him, to displace that windbag, in the whitehouse; float that glib tongued BURROck, whitehouse, jackass, down there, and let him float, those ships, before he scuttles the one we're all on... see "Tiger," for advice.. And, why does this ship of state, float, with all those empty heads in Washington' if not because of the buoyancy, of all those empty heads... And, finally, Compressors, are for airing up the tanks; not, sinking them. Why would youse guys, ridicule, what I said, while admitting it; that, you are not helping...??? Edgrrr...
Anton Rijsdijk Jul 16th 2011 10:27AM
Very nice pictures! I love shipwrecks and I spend years with photographing wrecks around the world. Have a look at my pics: www.visible-shipwrecks.nl