Zarita struggles to survive the brutality and trickery of the Inquisitors while observing the courtly intrigue of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, while Saulo, sentenced to work as a galley slave, faces shipwreck and pirates before encountering Christopher Columbus.
Mr. Sykes spent the first six months of his retirement designing a 2,700-pound 2,700-poundmorial for the shipwreconcretethat would face east toward Africa.
Schettino may face charges of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship.
Those familiar with nineteenth-century Romanticism will flash back to Caspar David Friedrich's paintings of an Arctic shipwreck and a monk facing a similarly chilly scene.
Once formally indicted, Mr. Schettino could face charges of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship, which in Italy carry a sentence of up to 30 years.
We adore Leo's sensitive side -- his philanthropy, his environmental activism, his chivalry amid Titanic shipwrecks -- but let's face it, the boy knows how to party.
He pictured himself telling the story of his shipwreck and tried to see the face of his former wife, Claudia.
Now that shipwreck was staring him in the face, he called on Begin to bring in the Americans.
The Ukrainian crew were charging their Thai clients close to a million dollars for delivery, so they now faced the prospect of shipwrecking an antique, and decided to try landing a team on the America via helicopter.
The deaths of at least 27 suspected asylum seekers in a shipwreck at Christmas Island has put a human face on Australia's often heated debate over how to deal with illegal immigrants, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney.
