A year after the first deaths of divers who ventured into the ocean’s sunless depths, an industry wrestles with new challenges for piloted submersibles and robotic explorers.
Category: Exploration and Explorers
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Overlooked No More: Ada Blackjack, Survivor of a Harrowing Arctic Expedition
She learned to fend for herself during a venture to Wrangel Island. By the time a rescue ship arrived, she was the last crew member standing.
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‘Rooftopping’ Is Popular on Instagram, but the Risks Are High
“Rooftoppers” get a thrill from taking photos atop skyscrapers and sharing them on social media. Detractors call them reckless.
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Hamish Harding, Explorer Who Knew No Bounds Until Titanic Dive, Dies at 58
An aviation tycoon who pushed the limits, he went to the depths of the ocean and the blackness of space before his fateful dive to the Titanic on Sunday.
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Talking With Kirsten Neuschäfer, the First Woman to Sail and Win the Golden Globe
Kirsten Neuschäfer talks about winning the nonstop, round-the-world Golden Globe race and the possibility of another circumnavigation.
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Read Your Way Through Kerala
A strip of lush land at the tip of India where spices grow wild, Kerala has long drawn the gaze of outsiders. Here’s Abraham Verghese’s guide to its literature, which nods at these influences but is very much its own.
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Marion Smith, the World’s Most Prolific Cave Explorer, Dies at 80
The New York Times – Sports:He was particularly fond of vertical caving, often dangling freely in a hundred-foot abyss on a rope no thicker than a thumb.