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Individual reading, Arendarenko (Main points (What ships were carrying…
Individual reading, Arendarenko
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THE FIRST PART
log
shipwreck
sink
treacherous (коварный)
timber (лесоматериал)
swelled (разрастаться)
devour (поглощать)
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THE SECOND PART
herald
twilight
scour (рыскать)
fellow (товарищ)
have put together a list
shedding (пролитие)
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Main points
Shipwreck history
First shipwreck
Last shipwreck
Number of shipwrecks
Causes of shipwrecks
It found that 91.2% of ships were sunk by severe weather – mainly tropical storms and hurricanes – 4.3% ran on to reefs or had other navigational problems, and 1.4% were lost to naval engagements with British, Dutch or US ships. A mere 0.8% were sunk in pirate attacks
681 shipwrecks off Cuba, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the US Atlantic coast
July 1898, when the Spanish destroyer Plutón was hit by a US boat off Cuba
Christmas Day 1492, when Christopher Columbus’ flagship, the Santa María, sank off the coast of what is now Haiti
What ships were carrying
gold, silver, emeralds, spices, mercury and cochineal
“But it’s not just about products and trade. These ships were also carrying ideas. We were surprised to find a lot of boats loaded with religious objects – relics, decorations and even stones to build churches.”
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Who does research
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What are they doing
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Aims
“One was to come up with a tool that can be used for identifying and protecting wreck sites – especially in areas where there’s a high concentration of sunken ships.
“The other was to recover a bit of history that’s been very much forgotten. The most famous ships have been investigated, but there’s a huge number about which we know absolutely nothing. We don’t know how they sank, or how deep.”
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