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SS Sapona, the Glossary

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SS Sapona was a concrete-hulled cargo steamer that ran aground near Bimini during a hurricane in 1926.[1]

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  1. 20 relations: Artificial reef, Bimini, Cargo ship, Carl G. Fisher, Concrete, Concrete ship, Flight 19, Ian Fleming, Prohibition, Scuba diving, Shock Waves (film), Snorkeling, Thunderball (novel), Tropical cyclone, Tropics, United States Army Air Corps, Wilmington, North Carolina, Woodrow Wilson, World War I, World War II.

  2. Bimini
  3. Concrete ships
  4. Design 1070 ships

Artificial reef

An artificial reef (AR) is a human-created freshwater or marine benthic structure.

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Bimini

Bimini is the westernmost district of the Bahamas and comprises a chain of islands located about due east of Miami.

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Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.

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Carl G. Fisher

Carl Graham Fisher (January 12, 1874 – July 15, 1939) was an American entrepreneur in the automotive industry, highway construction and real estate development.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Concrete ship

Concrete ships are built primarily with ferrocement (reinforced concrete) hulls, reinforced with steel bars. SS Sapona and concrete ship are concrete ships.

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Flight 19

Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.

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Prohibition

Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.

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Shock Waves (film)

Shock Waves is a 1977 American horror film written and directed by Ken Wiederhorn.

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Snorkeling

Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming face down on or through a body of water while breathing the ambient air through a shaped tube called a snorkel, usually with swimming goggles or a diving mask, and swimfins.

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Thunderball (novel)

Thunderball is the ninth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, and the eighth full-length Bond novel.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Tropics

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.

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United States Army Air Corps

The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941.

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Wilmington, North Carolina

Wilmington is a port city in and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Bimini

Concrete ships

Design 1070 ships

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sapona

Also known as Sapona.