16-04-28 Chinas COSCO Shipyard has delivered a giant carrier ship designed for livestock to a Singaporean buyer. 中国远航运输集团向新加坡买方交付一艘用于运输牲畜的巨型货船。 The ship has been delivered in the northeastern coastal city of Dalian. The vessel,...

16-03-03 For what may be the first time, scientists have eavesdropped on the deepest part of the world's oceans and instead of finding a sea of silence, they discovered a cacophony of sounds both natural and caused by humans. For three weeks, a titanium-enca...

15-12-09 BUT first I was to prepare more land, for I had now seed enough to sow above an acre of ground. Before I did this, I had a week's work at least to make me a spade, which, when it was done, was but a sorry one indeed, and very heavy, and required dou...

15-12-09 SEPTEMBER 30, 1659. -I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called The Island of Despair; all the rest of the ship's company being drowned...

15-12-09 I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at Yor...

15-07-22 Scanning sonar from a scientific expedition has revealed the remains of a previously unknown shipwreck more than a mile deep off the North Carolina coast. Artifacts on the wreck indicate it might date to the American Revolution. Marine scientists fr...

15-06-08 passenger ship 客轮 luxury cruise ship 豪华游轮 Jianli section at the middle reaches of Yangtze River 长江中游监利水域 cyclone 龙卷风 Yangtze River navigation administration 长江航运管理 capsize （船）倾覆，翻船 distress call 求救信号 group tourists...

14-11-27 A ship that sank 112 years ago bearing bodies of 499 Chinese miners has been discovered near Hokianga Harbour, New Zealand. 一艘沉没112年、载有499名中国矿工尸体的沉船在新西兰赫基昂加湾附近被发现。 Fish swim around the propeller of the underwater shi...

14-09-05 Chapter 2 Kidnapped When I woke up in darkness, my head was hurting badly, and I was unable to move my hands or feet. I could hear the sailors shouts and the sound of the wind and the waves. The whole world seemed to go up, up, up, and then down aga...

14-07-23 A monkey! exclaimed the Sultan. Yes, sire, answered the officials. They were written by a monkey in our presence. Then bring me the monkey, he replied, as fast as you can. The Sultan's officials returned to the ship and showed the royal order to the...