The Bermuda Triangle is an area of the North Atlantic, where over 50 ships and 20 planes have mysteriously vanished. The mystery was later concluded as an occurrence of electromagnetic forces in the sea bed.
The car-carrier vessel M. V. Hyundai sank after colliding with an oil tanker, with 4000 cars on board, in the south of Singapore in May 2004.
Titanic, the world’s largest cruiser in her days, during her maiden voyage from Southampton (UK) to New York on 14th April 1912, in the Atlantic Ocean, collided with an iceberg and sank in just 2 hours. 1,500 people lost their lives and 711 were rescued. But, after 72 years, the wreck was located at a depth of 12,460 ft where the water pressure is approximately 6,000 Ibs /sq. inch, when a joint US-French project went to work in 1984-85.
The largest airship was a German built Zeppelin called Hindenburg. It was 245 m long, (more than 3 times the size of Jumbo jet) and put into regular services to some routes, just like a modern airliner. Then, in 1937, after just one year in service, it burnt into flames during take off.
The financial service firm DBS in Stamford, Connects (USA), has the largest single trading floor which covers area of 8,625 sq. mts. It has long sitting space alongside to accommodate 5,000 computers and 1,400 traders at a time.
Shanghai World Financial Centre, with a height of 460 m in Shanghai, is the China's tallest building/followed by the Petronas Twin Towers with a height of 452 m in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
The USA military Hovercraft, SES-1001 holds the speed record of travelling on the surface of the sea at 170 KMPH.
