Jane Hamilton

There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.

American Novelist

Lysander Spooner

All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

American Philosopher

Andy Gibb

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

Australian Musician

J. G. Ballard

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

British Author

Pablo Picasso

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Spanish Painter

Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

German Physicist

Charles Spurgeon

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

British Clergyman

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

German Critic

Clive Cussler

American Writer

Charles de Gaulle

French Leader

Used specifically for ships, not for boats or small vessels.

Maritime Context

Often associated with storms, hurricanes, or other natural sea-related disasters.

Natural Disasters

Shipwrecks can be historically significant and studied by researchers.

Historic Events

Old shipwrecks are often explored by divers and archaeologists.

Underwater Exploration

Some shipwrecks undergo salvage to recover valuable items or pollutants.

Salvage Operations

The verb implies unplanned destruction, usually by accident or nature.

Unexpected Events

The verb form focuses on the act of a ship being ruined, not the aftermath.

Emphasis on Action

Used metaphorically to describe a disastrous situation in life or endeavors.

Metaphoric Usage

Conveys a strong negative feeling about the severity of a situation.

Emotional Impact

 around this island which is actually quite incredible because it's not that big a place which means that pretty much anywhere you swim you're gonna bump into a shipwreck they form an integral part of our national identity it's one of the Bermudas most iconic shipwrecks there's actually two shipwrecks laid on top of each other you have the constellation

Underwater on Bermuda’s...

 there are ruins where people once roamed and shipwrecks loaded with artifacts from another time. This is the domain of underwater archaeology, where researchers discover and study human artifacts that slipped into the sea. They're not on a treasure hunt. Underwater archaeology reveals important information

How much of human...

 ask did you find the right ship this said Yorktown on the stern more recently finding ancient history how many ancient mariners have had a bad day the numbers of million we've been discovering these along ancient trade routes where they're not supposed to be the shipwrecks thanked hundred years

On exploring the oceans...

 that's like a characteristic thing of a shipwreck and we had Betts going on board like how old it would be what it might have been used for and as we got clearer we were like what the heck and it turns out it was a shipping container that had obviously fallen off of a ship

Diving 1000m Below The...

 the sea scientists note the health of the coral types of fish including the invasive lionfish and inspect man-made debris including lost fishing gear and even newly found shipwrecks all of this data will help scientists better understand the reefs here and offer

Scientists "See" Ocean...

 and explores all kinds of shipwrecks and sunken german u-boats in the north atlantic and finally he becomes one of national geographic's go-to underwater photographers since then he's observed a litany of fascinating creatures in the ocean

The Secret Culture of...

 became the most magical thing to me. It became a gilded gateway into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks and images in my imagination. So I felt like our cellphones and our fancy watches and our cameras had stopped us from dreaming.

Shilo Shiv Suleman:...

 brother joined a band of aristocrats seeking independence from Spain when his brother died in a shipwreck Bolivar went on to invest the whole family fortune in the revolution and as his fame grew he was asked to help revolutions as far

The impact of Simón...

 a storm from the north wrecked two of the ships and the soldiery brothers mussels onto a reef we were the first people to discover this shipwreck and the reason being because it was such a remote part of the world its son an

Shipwreck From Explorer...

 them survived this shipwreck and they were taken to Boston and tried and everything they said was transcribed by a court stenographer and one of the Pirates testified he said fifty pounds