Outran Submarines but Couldn't Survive the Sand | SS America
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Imagine a colossal steel transatlantic ocean liner, a true marvel of engineering for its time, meeting its end not in the middle of a bottomless ocean, but right on the sunny sandy beach of a popular resort.
This is not the premise of a Hollywood disaster film nor a fictional story. It is the absolutely real, thoroughly documented tragedy of the famous ocean liner SS America.
Her speed was sufficient to leave enemy submarines far behind.
The story of SS America is a dramatic blowby-blow testament to the fact that even the most perfect human technology and the most luxurious ocean liners are nothing more than temporary visitors in the world's oceans.
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In 1994, the legendary SS America - once the flagship of the United States Lines, a troop transport in WWII, and later the Greek cruise ship Australis - ran aground on the wild coast of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands during a violent storm. For years, the rusting wreck became one of the most iconic and haunting images in maritime history. Episodes: 00:00 - The Ghost Ship on the Beach 01:45 - Birth of SS America 03:50 - Design & Interiors 05:15 - World War II: The Grey Ghost of the Oceans 06:45 - Post-War Golden Age and Decline 08:10 - Thai Project 09:35 - 1993 Voyage & The Ukrainian Tug Neftegaz-67 11:05 - Caught in the Atlantic Storm 12:20 - The Shipwreck & Structural Collapse 13:25 - What is Left of the American Star Today? #ShipwreckHistory #SSAmerica #MaritimeDisaster #OceanLiner #AmericanStar