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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:14:23 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Isn't there another wreck that is interesting ,, this one is getting
so yesterday.



Glad you asked... loss of the SS Atlantic was the worst disaster in the
North Atlantic before the Titanic
http://www.ssatlantic.com/


It may not be particularly interesting, but the record for loss of
life, anywhere, was a shipload of Germans who were fleeing the
Russians at the end of WWII. The ship was torpedoed by a Russian sub
and about 5000 died.

Casady