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WHAT’S AT STAKE

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

In today’s newsletter, we ask if the Titanic rescue will work, avoid ticks at all costs, search for Tasmanian tigers ... and soak in the first day of summer.

the Titan submersible

PHOTOGRAPHS BY OCEANGATE EXPEDITIONS

Why is it so complicated to save those Titanic tourists? Few vessels can go as deep as their submersible (above), or get there in the dwindling hours before the air supply is exhausted.

Kristin Romey examines how a rescue would occur (and why the submersible’s Playstation controller is nothing to laugh at). Allie Yang looks at who gets to dive to the Titanic.

WHAT’S AT STAKE

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the submersible Titan

Even if it surfaces: Due to its design, crew members aboard Titan are literally bolted into the vessel, which has no hatch or way to open from the inside. Read more.

Go deeper:
— The unseen Titanic
— A decision in its final hours sealed Titanic’s fate
— Bolted inside, these explorers made history nearly a century ago
— James Cameron and deep-sea pioneers
— These women unlocked the mysteries of the deep

STORIES WE’RE FOLLOWING

Tasmanian tigers

INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY DIVISION, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ARCHIVES

The controversial quest to bring back the Tasmanian tiger (two pictured above)

The strange saga of Hvaldimir the ‘Russian spy whale’

If you don’t have ADHD, Adderall and Ritalin won’t work for you

A decade later, how the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge made a lasting impact

Kids need sunglasses as much as—or more than—adults. Here’s why.

Wildfire smoke affects birds too. Here’s how you can help.

What BPA can do to our bodies—and how to limit your exposure

What really attracts mosquitoes—and how to repel them

You may be overlooking this nutritional powerhouse. You shouldn’t.

Neanderthals brought a disease to the Vikings—and to us

Curly hair was an evolutionary advantage—and may be why humans have such big brains

TIME TO CHECK

a tick

PHOTOGRAPH BY ROMAN WILLI, NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY

Longer summers, longer tick season: Health officials are warning of a particularly bad year for ticks (one pictured above). What’s the best way to protect yourself?

A. Wear long pants and sleeves
B. Use a repellant
C. Check yourself after hiking
D. All the above

CLICK FOR THE ANSWER

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SUMMER!

a boy's legs after he dove into a lake

PHOTOGRAPH BY ZSÓFIA PÁLYI

Soak it in: Summer brings warmer weather, sunnier skies. And in landlocked Hungary, an escape to Lake Balaton, the largest lake in central Europe. Above, a boy dives into this 50-mile-long popular vacation destination. Where’s your go-to summer escape? Let us know.

LAST GLIMPSE

the iconic woodblock print of a wave by Katsushika Hokusai

KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Not a tsunami: They seem appear out of no where and are at least double the size of other waves around them—a rising wall of water in the middle of the sea. These rogue waves have been hard to predict and are dangerous to traveling ships, sending crews overboard. Now, scientists are developing ways to predict these massive swells before they strike. (Above, the iconic woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai.)

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