INCREDIBLE YARNS FROM THE WORLD OF SHIPS, BOATS AND SAILORS

RAMON ARTAGAVEYTIA SURVIVED THE SINKING OF

A SHIP IN 1871. IT WASN'T UNTIL 41 YEARS LATER

THAT HE MUSTERED UP THE COURAGE TO GET

BACK ON A BOAT. UNFORTUNATELY FOR HIM

THAT BOAT'S NAME WAS THE TITANIC

IN SPITE OF NEVER HAVING HAD ANY TRAINING,

ADMIRAL YI SUN SHIN DEFEATED 333 JAPANESE

SHIPS WITH A FLEET OF ONLY 13 KOREAN SHIPS

WHEN RESEARCHERS FROM TEXAS STATE

UNIVERSITY RAN OUT OF MONEY WHILE

STUDYING THE PIRATE CAPTAIN MORGAN,

IT WAS THE CAPTAIN MORGAN RUM COMPANY

THAT GAVE THEM MONEY TO CONTINUE!

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL PIRATES TO EVER

SET SAIL WAS CHING SHIH. SHE WAS A CHINESE

PROSTITUTE WHO ENDED UP COMMANDING

NEARLY 2,000 SHIPS

THE MS ESTONIA SANK IN THE BALTIC SEA IN 1994

AND ALL 852 PASSENGERS ARE STILL AT THE

BOTTOM. IT IS ILLEGAL TO DIVE TO THE WRECK

THE CLAW OF ARCHIMEDES WAS AN ANTI-SHIP

WEAPON DESIGNED TO BASICALLY LIFT SHIPS

AND THEN DROP THEM INTO THE OCEAN. IT WAS

USED BY THE GREEKS AGAINST THE ROMANS

TOMMY THOMPSON WAS A TREASURE HUNTER

THAT FOUND THE SHIPWRECK OF THE SS CENTRAL

AMERICA. IN 1987 HE RECOVERED NEARLY $1

BILLION FROM THE WRECK AND DISAPPEARED

IN 1969, THE SHIP NAMED BAYCHIMO WAS SPOTTED

DRIFTING IN THE ARCTIC. IT WAS ABANDONED

NEARLY 40 YEARS EARLIER IN 1931 NEAR ALASKA