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Explorers say they’ve found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I.
Some 524 people, including the ship’s captain, perished when the HMS Hawke went down in the North Sea off the eastern coast of Scotland on Oct. 15, 1914. Seventy crew members survived.
“It’s a big loss of life,” said Kevin Heath, who co-founded the website Lost in Waters Deep, which chronicles naval losses around Scotland by the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy and other countries during the conflict. “She’s a big ship. And it’s one of the first ships lost in World War I.”...
Here is the link for more about that.
Explorers say they’ve found a British warship sunk by a German U-boat in World War I : NPR
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When it came to taking down giant animals, prehistoric hunters would quite literally have faced a mammoth task. Now researchers have shed fresh light on how they might have done it.
Experts studying sharp stone points made by the Clovis people, who lived in the Americas from about 13,000 years ago, say that rather than hurling spears at enormous animals such as giant bison, mammoths or ground sloths, the tribes could have planted their weapons point-up in the ground to impale charging creatures.
“We are only now recognising that people in many cultures have hunted or defended against megafauna with planted pikes for thousands of years,” said Dr Scott Byram of the University of California, Berkley, a co-author of the study...
Here is that limk.
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If you recall, they predicted a very active hurricane season, but we've seen very little so far. Here is a discussion of that.
The typical peak of hurricane season has arrived. Historically speaking, about two-thirds of Atlantic hurricane activity occurs between Aug. 20 and Oct. 10. The Gulf of Mexico contains record hurricane fuel, and the Atlantic’s waters are alarmingly hot. And yet, the Atlantic is silent.
No storms are in the forecast any time soon. In fact, the rest of August may go without a single named storm forming. And as September looms, many are wondering when — or if — the Atlantic will awaken again.
Forecasters are doubling down on their predictions for a hyperactive season, with enough named storms to exhaust the conventional naming list used by the National Hurricane Center. Researchers at Colorado State University are calling for a season nearly twice as active as average, as measured by a metric called ACE, or Accumulated Cyclone Energy. That measures how much energy storms churn through across a season.
In the near term, it looks like the calendar will flip to September uneventfully — but then the temporary reprieve will come to a grinding halt. Storm activity is likely to increase as next month begins, and a flurry of storminess is probable deeper into the month....
Here is that link.Where Are All The Hurricanes? (spiritdaily.org)
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Nothing much new in the forecasts.
Despite the slow hurricane season and the lack of storms to stir the summer beaches, we will be heading into fall, which has in recent years produced some nice storms and great metal detecting finds.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net