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Out of Air

The San Agustín Sump: a kilometre underground and three metres from air

6 min read

An engineer who spent years building a machine for a single cave, a teammate who died three metres from the surface, and a black lake nobody has passed to this day.

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Deaths That Teach

Titan: the boy who didn't want to climb into the tin can

5 min read

Nineteen-year-old Suleman Dawood agreed to dive to the Titanic to please his father. Investigators would later call the tragedy preventable.

Against All Odds

Miracle over the Azores: how Air Transat 236 flew 120 kilometres without engines

5 min read

An Airbus A330 with 306 people on board ran out of fuel in the middle of the Atlantic. Nineteen minutes of gliding, one 360-degree turn and a landing that left nothing of the tyres.