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oceans: Large Bait 1800 / Venezuela; Talking Book c. 1725 / Atlantic Ocean; Stunt Doubles 2012: Details continue to emerge on exactly how, and why, the cruise ship Costa Concordia crashed into a rock and...; Tonight’s Moon, Tomorrow’s Hangover c. 1680 / Edo; Traveled the World and the Seven Seas 2011: Not content to eventually conquer space Richard Branson’s Virgin empire has announced its next target—the ocean deep. Branson...; The World in Time: The Sea, the Sea Simon Winchester’s new book The Atlantic is a biography of the massive body of water which has fascinated explorers, scientists, fishermen, pirates, and travelers for centuries.; The Character Remains 1866 / Atlantis; Surf’s Up 1849 / Tahiti; The World in Time: Graham Burnett Discusses Our Relationship with the Sea D. Graham Burnett is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Trial That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature.