News Story on the Steamship Portland

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For the Boston area viewers


Monday, December 8: Lost & Found

POSTED: 11:35 am EST December 3, 2008
UPDATED: 11:52 am EST December 3, 2008


Forget about the blizzard of 1978. The granddaddy of all New England storms is the Gale of 1898. Caught in the middle of its howling winds and towering seas, the steamer Portland tried, but failed, to ride out the waves, finally sinking and taking 192 passengers and crew to a watery grave. Tonight, Peter Mehegan recounts that fateful event. And Mary Richardson brings us a 21st century coda: the story of five Massachusetts adventurers who did the unthinkable, testing the limits of human endurance as they dove nearly 500 feet to see the wreck up close for the first time.

Check it out next Monday
Paul
 

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