Swamp Buggy Racing Is Your New Favorite Amphibious Motorsport

These are swamp buggies. With horsepower figures in the four digits, they can drive on land, but they race in the water. What they do looks as much like riding an exploding bomb as any kind of motorsports I've seen.

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How Chrysler Lost An Exceptional Beauty At Sea

In the summer of 1956, Italy's iconic luxury cruiser the SS Andrea Doria was hit by the Swedish MS Stockholm off the coast of Massachusetts on her way to New York. She sank eleven hours later. The collision resulted in the loss of 51 lives, and a very special Chrysler never to reach the American audience.

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Japanese High School Tsunami Boat Recovered Through Facebook

The high school in the Japanese coastal town of Rikuzentakata was completely destroyed following the tsunami of 2011, along with 80% of the buildings in the city. Now, however, they may get their lost boat back, thanks to Facebook.

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The Rinspeed Splash Hydrofoil Actually Exists

Remember this little guy from 2006, the hydrofoil car Rinspeed CEO Frank Rinderknecht drove, if that’s the right word, across the English Channel? It’s real. The Rinspeed Splash was on display in Geneva. And while it will never cease being surreal to think it’s a hydrofoil car it’s hydrofoil car it’s hydrofoil car

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Two Sailors From America's First Iron-clad Warship To Be Buried At…

It's been 151 years since the USS Monitor — the U.S. Navy's first iron-clad warship — sank in the Atlantic Ocean near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. But the remains of two sailors found in the wreck's turret in 2002 will finally be laid to rest with full military honors this week at Arlington National Cemetery.

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