Shipwreck
The shipwreck was identified in September 2009 by Michael C. Barnette and divers from the Association of Underwater Explorers.
Read more about this topic: USS Valley City (1859)
Famous quotes containing the word shipwreck:
“For the bright side of the painting I had a limited sympathy. My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.”
—Ambrose (c. 333–397)
“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)