WORLD WAR II LOST SUBMARINE FOUND! RELATIVELY INTACT

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE : WWII SUBMARINE FOUND AFTER 80 YEARS 

Excerpt: The vessel is submerged under 3,000 feet of water in the South China Sea near Luzon, an island at the northern end of the Philippines. The USS Harder is sitting upright on the seafloor and is relatively intact, except for damage to its conning tower from the Japanese depth-charge that sank the submarine.

Check out the four-dimensional photogrammetry model photo!

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THAT ICEBERG THAT SUNK THE TITANIC WOULD HAVE MELTED AWAY...

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE : THE ICEBERG THAT SUNK THE TITANIC  The story article begins with an explanation of SNOWFLAKES and SNOW FALL... How ICEBERGS form... and how little was known about icebergs back when the Titanic collided with one that might have only lasted a few more weeks of cold ocean. 

Excerpt: When the Titanic sank in 1912, it plunged an astounding two and a half miles and hit the seafloor at more than thirty miles per hour. The ship's ocean grave was so remote that its location remained a mystery until 1985, when a team that had the benefit of government-developed submarines and deep-water crafts was able to take some blurry snapshots.  It took seventy-tree years, almost an entire human lifespan, to find the most illustrious and fascinating shipwreck of all time.

NAZARE PORTUGAL OFF SHORE CANYON THREE TIMES DEEPER THAN THE GRAND - TOTAL MONSTER WAVES

EPIC QUEST TO CONQUER WORLDS BIGGEST WAVES by Paul Thuroux

Link to the full article from this month's Smithsonian Magazine.  The waves that are driven by encountering this extreme trench produce death defying waves for surfers brave or crazy enough to try them.  100 feet or more!

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE SWIMMING WITH WHALE SHARKS JUNE 2011

"The biggest fish in the sea is a polka dotted gentle giant." Link to the article from Smithsonian Magazine (one of our favorites) now! Juliet Eilperin is the writer and photographs (wow!) are by Brian Skerry.

"The biggest fish in the sea, a whale shark can weigh many tons and grow to more than 45 feet in length. It’s named not only for its great size but its diet; like some whale species, the whale shark feeds on plankton. A filtering apparatus in its mouth allows it to capture tiny marine life from the vast amount of water it swallows. But it is a shark—a kind of fish with cartilage rather than bone for a skeleton—a slow-moving, polka-dotted, deep-diving shark."