An avid amateur magician, Garriott also collects oddities including scientific instruments and favors extreme adventures such as safaris, exploring hydrothermal vents in Antarctica and salvaging deep ocean wrecks.
The temblor, which registered 9.2 on the local-magnitude scale, set off a tsunami that spread across the Indian Ocean, wrecking coastal communities and killing more than 200,000 people.
That's right, if White Walkers, zombies, dragons, and constant warfare weren't enough, there might be a stygian horror from the depths of the ocean wrecking havoc on the land.
The new finding, he added, is the company's second discovery of a deep-ocean wreck for the British government this year.
Once stranded in the ocean, the wreck slowly began what appeared to be a trek inland.
To hear some people tell it, the increasingly energetic and sophisticated fishing industry has left the world's oceans a shambles, with species of cod, sharks, tuna and other fish hunted almost to extinction and vast stretches of the ocean floor wrecked by bottom-scraping trawlers.
Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett: A treasure hunter looking for the "Heart of the Ocean" in the wreck of the Titanic in the present.
The storm kicked up five destructive high tides coinciding with a new moon, and the onrush of ocean swallowed dunes, wrecked homes and businesses, flooded streets and demolished boardwalks.
On an ocean planet, we are wrecking the ocean.
Robert Williams Robert Williams, chairman of Genova Products, a plumbing supply company in the Midwest, descended over two miles to the ocean bottom to view the wreck of the Titanic.
Aviation archaeologist Jon Myhre raised this wreck from the ocean floor in 1990.
