Strange but true. Digital memory cards are indeed an amazing technology.
When Dennis and Barbara Gregory accidentally dropped their digital camera over the side of the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic, they thought their holiday snaps were gone for ever. But 16 months later the couple have been reunited with the pictures after a Spanish fisherman found the camera in his nets. Amazingly, trawlerman Benito Estevez discovered there were five images still intact on the Nikon’s memory card.
As truly awe inspiring as the huge and high tech America’s Cup boats are, we shouldn’t forget that iceboats are the real speed demons on the water (even if it is frozen.) Will at the Tugster blog has some 
Over thirty years ago when I was in college studying naval architecture, a classmate of mine got a summer job working as a naval architect for Sun Shipyard helping to design some part of the new deep sea mining ship, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, being built for Howard Hughes’ Global Marine. Years later my friend was chagrined to learn that the ship he was working on was not intended for deep water mining but was a top secret CIA project to raise the K-129, a sunken Golf Class Soviet submarine. The cover story was that the ship was intended to raise magnesium nodules from the deep ocean floor.
Last October, we wrote about how researchers are using eighteenth century Royal Navy ship logs to study climate change. (See 
The physics here is fascinating. How is it possible that the America’s Cup challenger ”USA” can sail at 22 knots in only two knots of wind? 
Many ships carrying civilians were sunk during World War II by both sides. If current estimates are correct, the torpedoing of the
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This September, we posted about the popular and nearly ubiquitous “duck tours” using refurbished World War II DUKW amphibious trucks, or vehicles inspired by them, to take tourists on tours in cities and resorts around the world. (See 