shipwreck

Eighty-two people survived the shipwreck, all Ethiopian nationals, according to the updated toll.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Yet he visited all 24 states, along a circuit of more than 6,000 miles and hundreds of stops, braving terrible storms, bad roads and one shipwreck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Waters has encountered complete artifacts while working with shipwreck collections, where intact objects are more common.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

At the time, it was hailed as the world's oldest-known intact shipwreck.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Ships did not sail by night, and any place where sailors put in might harbor a monster or a magician who could work more deadly harm than storm and shipwreck.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

It called it "one of the deadliest shipwrecks recorded" on the route.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Some shipwrecks are partly or completely buried beneath sediment, which can greatly reduce their ability to release pollutants into the surrounding water.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Of course, not all shipwrecks find themselves in such relatively hospitable conditions—the Titanic, for instance, is slowly being gobbled up by iron-eating bacteria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Homer’s “The Odyssey” follows Odysseus, a Greek king trying to get home after the Trojan War, a journey interrupted by Cyclopes, sirens, shipwrecks and gods with grudges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

Some three million shipwrecks lie on the ocean floor, and along with them, much of human history hides beneath the waves.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned nearly a fifth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

International law requires belligerents in a war to assist sailors wounded or shipwrecked in battle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

On Friday, Italy's coastguard said it was searching for the survivors of a shipwrecked vessel carrying about 30 people in the search and a rescue area of Malta, some 50 miles southeast of Lampedusa.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

When the parties separate once more after their vessel is shipwrecked on a mysterious island, every moment Edwards spends away from Johansson and Bailey is time wasted.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2025

When it was his turn to read novels out loud, he liked The Swiss Family Robinson and Robinson Crusoe, stories about people shipwrecked on islands and learning how to survive.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

“Maybe fate brought you here for a reason,” Blackthorne is told shortly after shipwrecking in Japan.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

I’ve had a pretty good hardening already, what with knocking on the head, drowning, shipwrecking, starving, and walking off my legs.”

From Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor by John Schonberg

Instead he continued: “But I ain’t the one to bear a grudge, Duval, although you did come mighty near shipwrecking my faith in human natur’.

From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by John Henry Goldfrap

And of the risks I ran of utterly shipwrecking my character and good name and from which Thou didst rescue me. 

From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Alexander Whyte

He was in danger of shipwrecking on that fatal sunken reef to American character, popularity.

From Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41 by Unknown