Flight 841 may refer to Los Angeles Airways Flight 841 , helicopter crashed on May 22, 1968 TWA Flight 841 1974 , airplane bombed on September 8, 1974 TWA Flight 841 1979 , airplane dived on April 4, 1979 disambig ... more details
Photo by User Adam Carr July 2005 Developed from film found only working camera found in wreck of plane that dived vertically from 30,000 feet. PD self date July 2005 . Copy to Wikimedia Commons bot Fbot ... more details
Summary SB2C Helldiver fails to catch the wire on landing, and hits the first barrier. It nose dived into the deck, breaking the engine mounts, rupturing fuel lines and starting a fire. It was quickly extinguished and cleared out of the way so that further aircraft could continue to land. USS Hornet, July 3, 1944. http www.daveswarbirds.com navalwar ac pics crash 1.jpg www.daveswarbirds.com Licensing PD USGov Military Navy Copy to Wikimedia Commons bot Svenbot priority true ... more details
AWM image 014499 Information Description Brigadier General Dwight F. Johns decorates Private 1st Class Julius Franklin, who dived into a river and swam through burning petrol and exploding ammunition to rescue a fighter pilot whose plane had crashed into a river in New Guinea. Source http www.awm.gov.au database collection.asp Date 4 March 1943 Location New Guinea Author unknown Permission PD Australia ... more details
Orphan date October 2006 att November 2011 Danny Higginbottom , a stunt performer stuntman from Louisiana , dived from a height of 29 ft. into 12.5 in. of water on August 23, 1999, earning him the current Guinness World Record for Highest Shallow Dive . This was surpassed by Professor Splash Darren Taylor to above 10m. External links http www.guinnessworldrecords.com index.asp?file content pages video.asp?videoid 100182 Guiness World Records video http www.homestead.com splashdownproductions Home.html Homepage Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Higginbottom, Danny ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Higginbottom, Danny Category American stunt performers Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people ... more details
Infobox AFL player NEW name Rhett Biglands fullname Rhett Biglands image birth date Birth date and age df yes 1977 9 4 birth place originalteam Woodville West Torrens Football Club Woodville West Torrens South Australian National Football League SANFL draftpick heightweight 198cm 104kg position death date death place currentclub guernsey years 2000 &ndash 2008 clubs AFL Ade games goals 134 59 statsend 2008 careerhighlights br Pre season premiership player, 2003 Rhett Biglands born 4 September 1977 is a former Australian rules football er in the Australian Football League . Career He made his debut as an 18 year old in the SANFL with Woodville West Torrens kicking 5 goals in his first match. He was then drafted by Port Power and placed on their inaugural list in 1997. After 2 groin reconstructions in the one year he returned to the SANFL. In the 1999 season he was equal 3rd in the Magarey Medal, played for South Australia against Victoria on the MCG and made The Advertiser SANFL team of the Year. Selected by the Crows with their first pick and debuting in the AFL in 2000 as a full back playing on Alistair Lynch, Biglands then made his name as a Ruckman Australian rules football position ruckman with the Adelaide Crows . He was one of the Crows best ruckmen for many years in a successful finals era for the club. He played in the 2003 pre season premiership side and amassed 134 games including 59 games and 11 Finals appearances. But he suffered a serious knee injury in the first quarter of the 2006 preliminary final vs the West Coast Eagles at AAMI Stadium . Biglands and several other players dived for the ball in a desperate scramble in front of the interchange bench. As Biglands dived forward, his teammate Nathan Van Berlo dived heavily into his left leg snapping Biglands left leg about 30 degrees causing him to clutch the knee and tearing the anterior cruciate ligament ACL inside his knee he limped off and attempted to come back, but was to no avail. After missing t ... more details
orphan date November 2009 The Red Jade was Ericsson s unreleased handheld console, intended to compete with the Game Boy Advance . It was supposed to be released in late 2001. Ericsson invested US 10 million in the Red Jade, which was supposed to have PDA functions, wireless connectability, DivX movies, cell phone capabilities, a GPS server, a digital camera, MP3 audio playback, a web browser, the ability to download games from the website, game sharing and graphics on par with the PlayStation . When their overall sales dived and 22,000 employees were released, Ericsson cancelled the Red Jade to help stay out of the red. It s unclear how many prototype units exist, or if any prototype games were made. Ericsson handsets division has since been divested into joint venture with Sony and been rebranded as Sony Ericsson . Specifications CPU 64 bit Graphics 3D polygon graphics Audio Multi channel PCM Sounds Display TFT LCD , 65536 colors Power Mobile phone rechargeable battery Connectivity Bluetooth technology enable wireless communication between 2 or more machines External links http www.ericsson.com Ericsson s official website http money.cnn.com 2002 10 18 commentary game over column gaming CNN article about the Red Jade Category Handheld game consoles Category Vaporware game consoles videogame hardware stub ... more details
Jim Bowden is an United States American Scuba diving SCUBA diver , and an elite technical diving technical diver , famous as a cave diving cave diver and as a deep diving deep diver . In 1994 he set a world record, since broken, by diving to convert 925 ft m . He is one of Deep diving Ultra deep diving only eight people who have dived below a depth of convert 800 ft m on self contained breathing apparatus. He has also made six sub five hundred foot dives, more than any other diver on record. He was attempting a dual descent with Sheck Exley in the dive which resulted in Exley s death. Bowden had aborted his dive and ascended prior to the events which led to Exley s demise. Sources http www.advanceddivermagazine.com WETdivers WET Bowden bowden.html Profile of Jim Bowden by Advanced Diver magazine Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Bowden, Jim ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Bowden, Jim Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category Underwater divers Category People from Austin, Texas US bio stub Underwater diving bio stub ... more details
Other ships HMS Sealion Infobox ship begin Infobox ship image Ship image Ship caption Infobox ship career Hide header Ship country nowrap United Kingdom Ship flag shipboxflag United Kingdom naval Ship name HMS Sealion S07 Ship owner Ship namesake Sealion Ship ordered Ship builder Cammell Laird Ship yard number Ship laid down 5 June 1958 ref name submariners http www.submariners.co.uk index.php Submariners.co.uk ref Ship launched 31 December 1959 Ship acquired Ship commissioned 25 July 1961 Ship decommissioned December 1987 Ship in service Ship out of service Ship struck Ship reinstated Ship fate Scrapped 1990 Ship status Infobox ship characteristics Hide header Header caption Ship class British Porpoise class submarine Porpoise class submarine Ship displacement 2,080 tons 2,113 tonnes surfaced, 2,450 tons 2,489 tonnes dived Ship length 88.4 m 290 ft Ship beam 8.1 m 26.5 ft Ship draught 5.5 m 18 ft Ship draft Ship propulsion Two ASR 16VVS AS21 diesel generators totalling 3680 bhp 2,740 kW , two English Electric main motors totalling 12000 hp 895 kW driving two shafts, two 880 V batteries each of 224 cells Ship speed 12 knots 22 km h surfaced, 17 knots 31 km h dived Ship range Ship endurance Ship test depth Ship complement 64 officers and men Ship sensors Ship EW Ship armament 6 x 21 inch 533 mm bow torpedo tubes, 2 x 21 inch 533 mm stern torpedo tubes 30 torpedoes could be carried usually Mk8 or Mk23 or mines Ship notes Refimprove date December 2009 HMS Sealion S07 was a British Porpoise class submarine Porpoise class submarine . Her keel was laid down on 5 June 1958 by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead . She was launched on 31 December 1959, and ship commissioning commissioned on 25 July 1961. Sealion was paid off in December 1987 and sold to an Education Trust for deprived inner city youngsters Inter Action , arriving at Chatham on June 22, 1988. She was broken up in 1990. References Reflist ... more details
unreferenced date January 2009 Infobox Ship Begin Infobox Ship Image Ship image Ship caption Infobox Ship Career Hide header Ship country UK Ship flag Image Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg 60px RN Ensign Ship name HMS Swiftsure Ship operator Royal Navy Ship ordered Ship awarded Ship builder Vickers Ship yard number Ship laid down Ship launched 7 September 1971 Ship sponsor Ship christened Ship completed Ship acquired Ship commissioned 17 April 1973 Ship recommissioned Ship decommissioned 1992 Ship in service Ship out of service Ship renamed Ship reclassified Ship refit Ship struck Ship reinstated Ship homeport Ship motto Ship nickname Ship honours Ship captured Ship fate Decommissioned Ship status Ship notes Ship badge File HMS Swiftsure crest.jpg 100px Infobox Ship Characteristics Hide header Header caption Ship class Swiftsure class submarine Swiftsure class submarine Ship displacement 4,900 tonnes dived Ship length convert 82.9 m ftin abbr on Ship beam convert 9.8 m ftin abbr on Ship draught convert 8.5 m ftin abbr on Ship propulsion Ship speed In excess of convert 20 kn km h 0 , dived Ship range Ship endurance Ship test depth Ship capacity Ship complement 116 officers and men Ship time to activate Ship troops Ship sensors Ship EW Ship armament 5 21 in 533 mm torpedo tubes br Spearfish torpedo es br RN Sub Boeing Harpoon Harpoon missiles Ship notes otherships HMS Swiftsure HMS Swiftsure S126 was the lead ship of Swiftsure class submarine her class of nuclear fleet submarines. HMS Swiftsure was decommissioned in 1992 due to damage suffered to the pressure hull during trials. Swiftsure class submarine DEFAULTSORT Swiftsure S126 Category Swiftsure class submarines Category Barrow built ships Category 1971 ships ja ... more details
Nuno Gomes born 1951 is a South Africa n Scuba diving SCUBA diver of Portugal Portuguese descent who holds the official current 2012 world record deep diving deep dive independently verified and approved by Guinness World Records see the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 Guinness World Record books . He used self contained underwater breathing apparatus SCUBA to dive to a depth of 1,044 feet 318.25 m . This depth excludes the rope stretch of 11.68 feet 3.56 m . The dive was done in the Red Sea Dahab , off the coast of Egypt, in June 2005. Nuno s total dive time was 12 hours and 20 minutes, the descent took only 14 minutes. He is one of only two men verified by Guinness World Records to have dived on SCUBA equipment using trimix below 1,000 feet the other diver being the late John Bennett diver John Bennett , Pascal Bernab claims to have dived to 1,083 feet 330 m , including a rope stretch of 32.81 feet 10 m , in July 2005. His dive was never approved by Guinness World Records. Gomes is also a renowned Cave diving cave diver and holds the official current 2012 Guinness World Record for the deepest cave dive, done in Boesmansgat cave South Africa , to a depth of 927 feet 282.6 m , in 1996. The cave is located at an altitude of 5000 feet 1550 m above sea level, which resulted in Nuno having to decompress for an equivalent sea level dive of 1112 feet 339 m to prevent decompression sickness the bends . The total dive time was 12 hours and 15 minutes, while the descent took 15 minutes. See also Deep diving Ultra deep diving World s deepest SCUBA dives Sources http www.nunogomes.co.za Nuno Gomes official site http www.sterlingdivers.com nuno gomes.html Sterling Divers Nuno Gomes http www.cdnn.info news industry i050613.html South African Nuno Gomes now world s deepest scuba diver Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Gomes, Nuno ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1951 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Gomes, Nuno Cate ... more details
U 437 on the surface. The U boat crash dived as Cundy dropped depth charges without any visible ..., he dived to attack and dropped the Hedgehog weapon Hedgehog anti submarine weapon onto the submarine ... more details
Use dmy dates date September 2011 Image Duck baiting.jpg thumb right 200px Duck baiting by Henry Alken circa 1820 Duck baiting is a blood sport involving the Bait dogs baiting of duck s. Overview Duck baiting involved releasing a Pinioning pinioned duck on to a duck pond pond . The dog dived into the pond coursing the duck, which was unable to fly. A spectacular Underwater diving diving exhibition ensued, as the duck dived the dog dived to pursue. Inevitably, the dog could not match the duck s speed underwater and would surface in rage. Spectators would gamble and joined in the noise to encourage their animal of choice. Those who backed the dog might throw stones at the duck in an attempt to disable it, which caused fights among the spectators. The dogs would take turns catching the duck. Prizes would be awarded to the dogs that caught the duck in the least amount of time. ref name Homan Homan, M. 2000 . A Complete History of Fighting Dogs pp 109 110 Howell Book House Inc. ISBN 1 58245 128 1 ref Strutt s Sports and Pastimes says of duck baiting another barbarous pastime and for the performance it is necessary to have recourse to a pond of water sufficiently extensive to give the duck plenty of room for making her escape from the dogs, when she is closely pursued which she does by diving as often as any of them come near to her. ref Strutt, Joseph 1810 Glig Gamena Angel Deod, Or Sports and Pastimes of the People of England 2nd edition White and Company, London, http books.google.co.uk books?id nSKFAAAAMAAJ&pg PA251 pages 251 252 , OCLC 2552476 ref It was a favourite spectator sport for Charles II of England . ref name Wright ref Collins, Tony and Vamplew, Wray 2002 Mud, Sweat and Beers A cultural history of sport and alcohol Berg, Oxford, England, http books.google.co.uk books?id IdZJaM5oUgcC&pg PA8 page 8 , ISBN 1 85973 553 3 ref Locations Duck baiting events were held in and around London. Rural inn s, with names like The Dog and Duck , ref Delderfield, Eric R. 196 ... more details
otherships HMS Spartan unreferenced date January 2009 Infobox Ship Begin Infobox Ship Image Ship image Ship caption Infobox Ship Career Hide header Ship country UK Ship flag Image Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg 60px RN Ensign Ship name HMS Spartan Ship operator Royal Navy Ship ordered 7 February 1976 Ship awarded Ship builder Vickers Ship yard number Ship laid down 26 April 1976 Ship launched 7 May 1978 Ship sponsor Ship christened Ship completed Ship acquired Ship commissioned 22 September 1979 Ship recommissioned Ship decommissioned January 2006 Ship in service Ship out of service Ship renamed Ship reclassified Ship refit Ship struck Ship reinstated Ship homeport Ship motto Courage With Great Endurance Ship nickname Ship honours Ship captured Ship fate Paid off Ship status Ship notes Ship badge File HMS Spartan crest.jpg 100px Infobox Ship Characteristics Hide header Header caption Ship class Swiftsure class submarine Swiftsure class submarine Ship displacement 4,900 tonnes dived Ship length convert 82.9 m ftin abbr on Ship beam convert 9.8 m ftin abbr on Ship draught convert 8.5 m ftin abbr on Ship propulsion Rolls Royce PWR Rolls Royce pressurised water nuclear reactor PWR1 Ship speed In excess of convert 20 kn km h 0 , dived Ship range Ship endurance Ship test depth Ship capacity Ship complement 116 officers and men Ship time to activate Ship troops Ship sensors Ship EW Ship armament 5 21 in 533 mm torpedo tubes br Spearfish torpedo es br RN Sub Boeing Harpoon Harpoon missiles br BGM 109 Tomahawk Tomahawk cruise missiles Ship notes HMS Spartan S105 is a nuclear powered fleet submarine of the Royal Navy s Swiftsure class . HMS Spartan was launched on April 7, 1978 by Lady Lygo, wife of Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo . The boat was built by Vickers Armstrongs now a division of BAE Systems at Barrow in Furness in Cumbria , England . She was decommissioned in January 2006. Spartan was ordered to sail south for the Falkland Islands two days before the 1982 invasio ... more details
otherships2 Sovereign of the Seas HMS Royal Sovereign unreferenced date January 2009 Infobox Ship Begin Infobox Ship Image Ship image Ship caption Infobox Ship Career Ship country United Kingdom Ship flag shipboxflag United Kingdom naval Ship name HMS Sovereign Ship operator Royal Navy Ship ordered 16 March 1969 Ship awarded Ship builder Vickers Ship yard number Ship laid down 18 September 1970 Ship launched 17 February 1973 Ship sponsor Ship christened Ship completed Ship acquired Ship commissioned 11 July 1974 Ship recommissioned Ship decommissioned 12 September 2006 Ship renamed Ship reclassified Ship refit Ship struck Ship reinstated Ship homeport Ship motto Ship nickname Ship honours Ship fate Paid off Ship notes Ship badge File HMS Sovereign crest.jpg 100px Infobox Ship Characteristics Ship class Swiftsure class submarine Swiftsure class submarine Ship displacement 4,900 tonnes dived Ship length convert 82.9 m ftin abbr on Ship beam convert 9.8 m ftin abbr on Ship draught convert 8.5 m ftin abbr on Ship propulsion Ship speed Over convert 20 kn 0 , dived Ship range Ship endurance Ship test depth Ship complement 116 Ship sensors Ship EW Ship armament 5 21 in 533 mm torpedo tubes br Spearfish torpedo es br RN Sub Boeing Harpoon Harpoon missiles br BGM 109 Tomahawk Tomahawk cruise missiles Ship notes HMS Sovereign S108 is a nuclear powered fleet submarine of the Swiftsure class submarine Swiftsure class . Construction Construction of the boat began on 18 September 1970 she was launched on 17 February 1973, and commissioned on 11 July 1974. Operational history In 1976, Sovereign played a role in Operation Brisk the submarine surfaced at the geographical North Pole on 20 October 1976 as part of the exercise, testing navigational systems and equipment performance in low temperatures. Sovereign underwent an extensive refit in the mid 1990s and was rededicated in January 1997. Cracks were discovered in the tailshaft during post refit sea trials and she was sent to Rosy ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2011 The Benarat 2005 Expedition to Gunung Mulu National Park , Sarawak in Malaysia took place between September 8th and October 7th 2005. The expedition was the latest in a series of Anglo Sarawak cooperative activities which commenced in 1977. Sixteen UK based cavers were in the field for varying periods of time, together with a number of officers from the Gunung Mulu National Park . Objectives The expedition was one of a series of explorations in Gunung Benarat and the northern end of Gunung Api. At the end of the 2003 expedition, a series of promising underground leads remained outstanding in the Benarat Cave s and the discovery of Whiterock Cave Gua Batu Putih , close to Blackrock Cave , offered new hopes of major extensions in Gunung Api. The expedition primary objectives in Gunung Benarat were to prove the connection of the Blue Moonlight Bay Cave and the Terikan Cave systems through the sumps which separated the components of this system. make the connection from Cobweb Cave to adjacent systems access the remaining high level entrance to the east of Tiger Cave , via a climb up the Benarat Cliffs. carry out further exploration of Sakai s Cave last explored in 1984 . In Gunung Api to explore Whiterock Cave locate and explore Canopy Cave locate new entrances in the northern slopes of Gunung Api. Outcomes Gunung Benarat Blue Moonlight Bay and Terikan Connections The sumps separating Terikan East Terikan West and Terikan East Terikan Rising were dived successfully, creating a single system of 32.573km. The upstream sump in Blue Moonlight Bay was dived to 53m. The sump is a vertical shaft which was circled at 6m and 20m depth with no obvious leads off at these levels. The sump continues vertically downward. High level entrance The climb to the high level entrance was started but abandoned after approximately 80m. At 60m the climbers found a new draughting cave entrance and this immediately became the focus of attention. This system name ... more details
The rising of Leck Beck Head gbmappingsmall ST660 800 was dived extensively in the 1980s and required ..., Witches Cave Yorkshire , has been dived through a 300m sump into Witches II. A dry entrance ... more details
Infobox military person name George Gosse image File George Gosse 081387.jpg 200px caption birth date 16 February 1912 death date Death date and age 1964 12 31 1912 02 16 df yes birth place Harvey, Western Australia Harvey , Western Australia , Australia death place Maslin Beach, South Australia Maslin Beach , South Australia , Australia placeofburial placeofburial label nickname allegiance flagicon Australia Australia branch Royal Australian Navy serviceyears 1926 &ndash 1933 br 1940 &ndash 1946 rank Lieutenant Commander unit commands battles Second World War South East Asian theatre of World War II South East Asian theatre European Theatre of World War II European theatre awards George Cross relations laterwork George Gosse George Cross GC , a mine clearance specialist in the R.A.N.V.R was awarded the George Cross for the heroism he displayed between the 8 May and 19 May 1945 in Bremen Harbour in Germany . His citation was published in the London Gazette on the 30 April 1946. ref name Dig cite web last first authorlink coauthors title George Cross work publisher Digger History date url http www.diggerhistory.info pages medals george cross.htm doi accessdate 2007 11 18 ref Divers searching the Undersee Hafen had reported a sighting of what appeared to be a new form of mine and, on the 8 May, Gosse dived and verified that it was a A G.D. pressure mine known as the oyster . Gosse was given the task of recovering the device intact and dived the next day to remove the primer, with improvised tools, rendering the device safe. During this procedure he heard a loud noise which, upon examination after the mine was brought to land, was found to have been caused by the detonator firing as the primer was removed. He later defused two similar mines which were posing a danger to shipping, on both occasions the detonator fired before the mine reached the surface. The George Gosse ward at the former Repatriation General Hospital, Hollywood has been named in his honour. References ... more details
September, when, in company with another machine, in face of a heavy barrage, he dived to attack a kite balloon as he dived he was attacked from the rear by four Fokkers. Disregarding them, he continued ... more details
Infobox protected area of Australia name Koreelah National Park iucn category II image caption map map caption locator x locator y location nearest town or city coordinates Coord 28 18 19 S 152 26 20 E type landmark region AU NSW display inline,title area Convert 53 km2 sqmi 1 abbr on established 1999 visitation num visitation year managing authorities National Parks and Wildlife Service New South Wales NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service official site http www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au Koreelah is a national park in New South Wales , Australia , 631 km north of Sydney . The park is part of the Scenic Rim Important Bird Area , identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance in the conservation of several species of threatened birds. ref name bli BirdLife International. 2011 . Important Bird Areas factsheet Scenic Rim. Downloaded from http www.birdlife.org on 2011 10 03. ref Description The main feature is the gorge just south west of the campsite. At the head of the gorge is a deep water hole surrounded by four metre cliffs that can be dived from. There are bigger waterfalls downstream but no access to the main gorge from the north without ropes. There is some algae in the water if there has not been recent rain. Facilities There is a campsite signed west of White Swamp Road, roughly 10 km north of Old Koreelah which is on the Mount Lindsay Highway . It has a compost toilet and some barbecue s, although the grass and weeds are rather long since cattle were evicted about 1999. See also Protected areas of New South Wales References reflist National Parks of New South Wales Category National parks of New South Wales Category Protected areas established in 1999 Category 1999 establishments in Australia Category Important Bird Areas of New South Wales NewSouthWales protected area stub de Koreelah Nationalpark es Parque Nacional Koreelah nl Nationaal park Koreelah ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 For the 1978 album by Bryan Ferry The Bride Stripped Bare album The Bride Stripped Bare is a 2003 novel written by the Australian writer Nikki Gemmell , originally published Anonymity anonymously . The title is borrowed from the painting The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even also known as The Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp . It went on the become the best selling book by an Australian author in 2003. ref Bookmarks by Jason Steger , The Age, Melbourne , 31 January 2004 ref In 2005, it was announced that Australian screenwriter Andrew Bovell , who penned the award winning film drama, Lantana film Lantana , was to adapt The Bride Stripped Bare for the screen. The book is written in the form of a diary by a young wife who has disappeared. In it, the author talks frankly about oral sex and love, and chronicles her relationship with a mysterious man she meets at a library group. The author has said that she loved the idea of writing a book that dived under the surface of a woman s life, a seemingly contentedly married woman, and explored her secret world with ruthless honesty . The act of writing the work anonymously she has described as liberating . A follow up novel entitled With My Body was published in Australia and the UK in October 2011 and is scheduled to be published in the United States in 2012. According to the publisher, it is companion piece but not explicity a sequel to The Bride Stripped Bare . References references DEFAULTSORT Bride Stripped Bare, The Category 2003 novels Category Australian novels Category Works published anonymously Category Erotic novels Erotic novel stub 2000s novel stub ... more details
dived and got to close range, when Donald fired a drum of cartridges into the German machine, stopping its engine. The German pilot then dived through a cloud, followed by Lieutenant Insall Fire was again ... dived to 500 feet, thus enabling Donald to open heavy fire on them. The Germans then fled, one helping ... trenches, but as he was at only 2,000 feet altitude he dived across them for greater speed ... more details
Image Mulberry at portland.JPG thumb 300px A pair of Phoenixes at Portland Harbour The Phoenix breakwater structure breakwater s were a set of reinforced concrete Caisson engineering caisson s built as part of the artificial Mulberry harbour s that were assembled as part of the follow up to the Normandy landings during World War II. They were constructed by civil engineering contractors around the coast of Britain. They were collected at Dungeness headland Dungeness and Selsey , and then towed across the English Channel and sunk to form the Mulberry harbour breakwaters replacing the initial Mulberry harbour Code names Gooseberry Gooseberry block ships. ref name CBA127 Further caisson were added in the autumn of 1944 to re enforce the existing structure to cope with the harbour continuing in use longer than planned. ref name CBA127 Several Phoenix breakwaters are still in use in Britain two are part of the harbour off Castletown, Dorset Castletown at Portland Harbour and two can be dived in less than 10 metres of water off Pagham . There is also a smaller Phoenix Caisson type C in Langstone Harbour . ref name CBA127 cite book last1 Hughes first1 Michael last2 Momber first2 Gary editor1 first Michael J editor1 last Allen editor2 first Julie editor2 last Gardiner title Our Changing Coast a survey of the intertidal archaeology of Langstone Harbour Hampshire year 2000 publisher Council for British Archaeology location York isbn 1902771141 pages 127 128 chapter The Mulberry Harbour Remains ref Four Phoenix breakwaters were used in the Netherlands to plug a gap in the dyke at Ouwerkerk after the North Sea Flood of 1953 . They have now been converted into a museum for the floods called the Watersnoodmuseum . You can walk through the four caissons. See also Mulberry harbour References reflist http www.geoffkirby.co.uk Portland 685740 The Mulberry Harbour Units, Portland, Dorset . http www.watersnoodmuseum.nl en GB The Watersnoodmuseum, Ouwerkerk, The Netherlands . coord 50 3 ... more details
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