The Vampire Ship
How the seizure of Europe’s largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East.
How the seizure of Europe’s largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East.
Alexander Clapp The New Republic Sep 2020 30min Permalink
An oddball team of ship salvagers is tasked with uprighting a tipped two-football-field-long cargo ship before it sinks into the darkness of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.
Joshua Davis Wired Feb 2008 35min Permalink
The ‘repo men’ of the high seas.
Ian Urbina New York Times Dec 2015 Permalink
The author dives to the wreck of the Mohawk, where his uncle died in 1935.
Patrick Symmes Outside Apr 2002 15min Permalink