Reading Recommendation.. Wired March 08

[[DRuG]NikT]

Wired is a classic futurist/gadget tech mag - using famous authors like William Gibson to cover real life stories.. you can usually spot it's Neon, ultra-Neo covers in the computer section of the news agency.

The March 2008 issue has a brilliant article covering the Titan ship salvage team's recovery of the Cougar Ace..

When a freighter packed with cargo worth $103 million flips onto its side in the North Pacific, a team of deep-sea cowboys gets the call.

It details how a team of 6 men restore to upright a 654 foot, 55,328 tonne, 14 deck ship carrying 5,542 cars. One of the team, a nautical computer modeler, died during the mission.

The Team:

Rich Habib, Senior Salvage Master

Colin Trepte, Lead Salvage Diver

Hank Bergman, Salvage Engineer

Phil Reed, Senior Naval Architect

Yuri Mayani, Salvage Diver

Billy Stender, Salvage Diver

RIP Marty Johnson, Naval Architect

The Ship:



Gotta say this is a classic example of the awesome writing in Wired, written by Joshua Davis.

I would reproduce the article, "The Sea Cowboys", but that would be illegal, and this is one really nicely put together magazine - I suggest you actually go out and buy it - they look awesome on any bookshelf or coffee table, and makes great reading.

Eureka!
Read the article online.. http://www.wired.com/science/discoverie ... seacowboys

Wired were some of the original netizens, of course all their stories are online! <3 WIRED <3

[[DRuG]NikT]

[DRuG]NikT acquires his latest issue of wired.

Took me an hour of nightmare driving to find one, but it's minnne

http://wired.com

nuff said.