A South African icebreaker sailed from Cape Town yesterday, headed for the Weddell Sea and the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance.
All in History
A South African icebreaker sailed from Cape Town yesterday, headed for the Weddell Sea and the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance.
I found the Suez Canal obstruction ordeal particularly interesting because it touched on two things for which I have an outsize love: large-scale infrastructure, and giant f**king boats.
What started my dive into nuclear history, I can’t say for sure. It could have been a news article, or a photo of urban decay from inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone that kicked off a Wikipedia binge. What accelerated it, without a doubt, was the release of Adam Higginbotham’s Midnight in Chernobyl.