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Tag: shipwreck

  • Rediscovering History: the USS Independence

    Rediscovering History: the USS Independence

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    Thirty miles off the coast of San Francisco, CA, at  793 m (2,600 ft) depth, lies the watery grave of the decorated United States aircraft carrier, Independence.

  • ISC Team helps discover black box from El Faro shipwreck

    ISC Team helps discover black box from El Faro shipwreck

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    UPDATE: Transcripts from the El Faro‘s black box have been released by the National Transportation Safety Board. The recording covers the last hours of the voyage. The Inner Space Center was integral in the discovery of the black box and was  praised by federal investigators. Original Post: The Inner Space Center (ISC) team has been working in…

  • Rhode Island Shipwrecks Recap

    Rhode Island Shipwrecks Recap

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    From September 2nd, to September 6th, several members of our URI GSO Inner Space Center team sailed aboard the R/V Endeavor. We were joined by scientists (from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography), high school teachers, and members of the United States Coast Guard Academy. Everyone onboard came out to sea for our Rhode Island Shipwrecks…

  • Wreck-ollections: U-Boat 166

    Wreck-ollections: U-Boat 166

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    Welcome to the second installment of the Inner Space Center’s ‘Wreck-ollections’, wherein we take a closer look at some of the fascinating shipwrecks we’ve visited or re-discovered.  This season has found us diving on a series of historical wrecks from WWII, and so we will go back to the beginning of the summer, to the…