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At nationalgeographic.com

Sebastian Junger: After the Storm
www.nationalgeographic.com/afterthestorm/index.html
A Q&A with The Perfect Storm author Sebastian Junger, who spent time on a commercial fishing boat.

Pirates of the Whydah
www.nationalgeographic.com/whydah/

Explore North America’s only known pirate shipwreck.

Silver Bank
www.nationalgeographic.com/silverbank

Take a virtual tour of an ill-fated Spanish treasure galleon that sank on the shoals of Silver Bank near the Dominican Republic in 1641.


Elsewhere on the Web

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
www.navtec.de/english/epirb2.htm

A description of an emergency beacon and what happens when one is activated.

Marine Weather Forecasts
www.boatus.com/news/mweather.htm/
NASA-produced weather forecasts and information, provided by the Boat Owners Association of the United States.

The National Safe Boating Council
www.SafeBoatingCouncil.org/
An online newsletter, kids site, pledge card for boating safety, and more.

Nautical Terms
www.marinedata.co.uk/mbm/terms.html
An illustrated diagram of a boat.

Royal National Lifeboat Institution
www.rnli.org.uk/brief.asp
The official site of Scotland’s sea rescue group, which is funded completely by donations.

Sea Links
searider.net
A current, weekly list of links to articles concerning fishing, the oceans, and the marine environment.

U.S. Coast Guard
www.uscg.mil/
Current news, information on search-and-rescue teams and boating safety, and more.



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Benchley, Peter. “Galapagos: Paradise in Peril.” Pages 2-31, April 1999.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Broadwater, John D. “Yorktown Shipwreck.” Pages 804-823, June 1988.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Treat, Ida. “Sailing Forbidden Coasts.” Pages 357-386, September 1931.


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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Ballard, Robert D. The Lost Wreck of the Isis. Random House/Madison Press Book, 1990.

Dillon, Patrick. Lost at Sea: An American Tragedy. Touchstone Books, 2000.

Marsden, Peter, and Richard Valentine. The Wreck of the Amsterdam. Hutchinson, 1974.

Ritchie, David. Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Worst Disasters at Sea. Checkmark Books, 1999.







 


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