Descrease article font size Increase article font size Some people love the feeling of blood rushing to their head while they ride a roller-coaster, but a group of thrill seekers in Wisconsin got more than their fair share when they became stuck upside down for several hours. Eight riders onboard the Fire Ball, a looping
Rudolph “Rudy” Farias IV, who disappeared in Texas in 2015 when he was 17 years old, was found alive on Thursday, eight years after he first went missing. John Cannon, a spokesperson for the Houston police, told the Associated Press that Farias, now 25, was found around 10 p.m. local time, laying on the ground
A new cruise vessel is passing its sea trials swimmingly, and when it’s eventually cleared for passenger voyages it will break records as the world’s largest cruise ship. Put simply, Royal Caribbean International‘s Icon of the Seas is a monster. At 365 metres long and weighing approximately 250,000 tonnes, it’s the biggest cruise ship ever
An unidentified tourist who visited the nearly 2,000-year-old Colosseum in Rome has sparked outrage in Italy after he was filmed carving his name and his apparent girlfriend’s name into a wall at the historic site. Italy’s culture and tourism ministers have vowed to find and punish the tourist who was seen scratching “Ivan+Haley 23” into
James Cameron, director of the blockbuster film Titanic, has criticized the engineering of the lost Titan submersible, calling its design “fundamentally flawed.” In an interview with ABC News, Cameron — who designs submersibles himself, some able to dive to depths three times below the Titanic site — said OceanGate Expedition’s vessel should not have been
A retired Dutch physicist is reporting that an orca rammed his sailing yacht multiple times on Monday off the coast of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, marking the first time such an incident has occurred in the North Sea. The news comes amid an uptick of orca attacks against boats off the Iberian peninsula that
As the search for a tourist submersible carrying five wealthy adventurers continues for a fourth day, attention online has turned to one passenger’s stepson, who said the experience has been “a nightmare.” Brian Szasz, the 37-year-old stepson of British billionaire Hamish Harding, was met with intense criticism on Monday when he posted a since-deleted photo
A Netflix documentary crew filming Our Planet II in the Northern Hawaiian Islands says in recent interviews that it was attacked twice by tiger sharks, causing an inflatable boat to “explode.” Series producer Huw Cordey told Forbes that the crew was documenting the first flight of baby albatross chicks, as the David Attenborough-narrated series revolves
A tourist submersible taking wealthy adventurers on a US$250,000 trip to see the Titanic shipwreck is still missing somewhere in the northern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. Crews lost contact with the submersible shortly after it began its dive Sunday morning. With 96 hours of reserve oxygen on board in the event of
A submmersible used to bring tourists and experts to the site of the Titanic shipwreck has gone missing somewhere in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. Coast Guard told Motorcycle accident toronto today Monday morning they had launched an operation to find the submersible.“We are coordinating search efforts for a submarine that lost communications yesterday while exploring