What is "wrecks"

Usage examples of "wrecks".

When they brought him to the most dangerous wrecks he held his own, bagged up, and stayed safe.

Nagle had envisioned his business as an endless series of trips to deep and dangerous wrecks like the Doria or the Choapa.

These wrecks occasionally surrendered a rare piece of china or jewelry, but Nagle and his kind were looking for something different.

Artifacts recovered from wrecks were guarded like firstborn children, occasionally at knife point In this way, early deep-wreck divers had a measure of pirate in their blood.

But his patrons desired only the easy, nearby sites, wrecks like the Stolt Dagali, SS Mohawk, and the Tolten.

Every fishing charter captain kept a book of public wrecks, the ones everyone knew and cleaned out regularly.

But it was the secret wrecks that mattered, and the secret wrecks made the captain.

Bielenda was a do-nothing blowhard who was just following the money, going with the established wrecks, doing nothing new.

He rarely ventured deeper than 100 feet and he penetrated wrecks only superficially, but he was hooked on the history that wafted from these ships.

They would replace Lloyd Garrick, who took some time off from diving shortly after the incident, and Dick Shoe, who remained willing to dive the Doria and other deadly wrecks but vowed never to return to something so dangerous as this submarine.

Often they fished the shipwrecks, and while they watched their poles Kohler told his son that row after row of wrecks lay beneath them courtesy of the German U-boats, fantastic hunting machines that had thrived in the most hostile environments on earth.

He moved fearlessly about the Oregon, the San Diego, and other wrecks, and penetrated areas that scared instructors.

The Thugs did their best teaching on the way to the wrecks, and their method was ancient and indelible.

New divers are often surprised to find such modern objects aboard old shipwrecks, but a veteran like Kohler had seen Budweiser cans, plastic prescription-medicine bottles, a Kotex applicator, even a Barney the Dinosaur balloon on hundred-year-old wrecks, and he understood that such objects had been dropped off passing boats and had drifted along the ocean bottom until they got caught up in a wreck.

Cavers often shunned wreck diving because of its unpredictability and harsh conditions, but the Rouses were drawn to wrecks for the history to be uncovered and the artifacts to be taken.