Sentence examples for for a shipwreck from inspiring English sources

MIAMI, May 18 — Explorers for a shipwreck exploration company based in Tampa said Friday that they had located a treasure estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars in what may be the richest undersea treasure recovery to date.

In the summer of 2010, Christian Ekström, a diver from the Åland Islands, an autonomous region of around sixty-five hundred isles off of Finland's west coast, began searching for a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, based on a tip he'd received from a fisherman.

Eriskay is renowned for a shipwreck that inspired the book and film Whisky Galore.

The group got tantalizing hints that they are on the right track in a preliminary survey last summer, which revealed "shapes that are too large for a shipwreck and too regularly shaped to not be manmade," says expedition member David Mindell of MIT.

Ms. Nutt, a staff writer for The Star-Ledger in Newark, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for her detailed account of a shipwreck off the Jersey Shore.

In the opera Idomeneo thanks Neptune for having rescued him from a shipwreck by offering to sacrifice the first person he meets onshore, who turns out to be his son.

New Providence's name supposedly derives from a 17th-century governor's thanks to Divine Providence for surviving a shipwreck: the "New" was added later to avoid confusion with Old Providence, a pirate stronghold off British Honduras (now Belize).

The ship's captain Francesco Schettino is on trial for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, and abandoning the vessel before all passengers had evacuated.

Companies sometimes spend millions of dollars searching for and mining a shipwreck and then cleaning up the finds in the hope of selling the artifacts for a huge profit at the end.

An archeologist who briefly worked for Odyssey on a shipwreck, and agreed to speak to me on the condition that he not be identified, said that he decided to take the job despite reservations.

It is the smile of a survivor, of someone left for dead after a shipwreck only to battle through waves and sharks.