shipwreck

Almost 30 years after the Manolis L sunk off the coast of Newfoundland in 1985, locals noticed signs of an oil leakage. Five years later, the feds finally stepped in to clean it up.

Inch by inch, salvage crews slowly raised the half-submerged Costa Concordia cruise ship this week, as a painstaking $800-million salvage effort finally got underway off the coast of Giglio, Italy. Crews used 56 giant pulleys to heave the vessel back to an upright position. Thirty-two people died after the Concordia hit rocks on Jan. 13.

Shipwrecked students survived on rainwater—and Disney songs