The CEO who was piloting the Titan submersible when it imploded underwater last year, killing him and his four passengers, once crashed another submersible into a shipwreck and then angrily threw the controls when a tearful passenger begged him to let another pilot take over, according to new testimony on Sept 17.
Over the course of our civilisation, we have measured and ranked pretty much anything worth doing like the biggest continent , the tallest mountain and the largest ocean .The title of" longest river in the world" has been fought over for centuries and scientists still can't fully agree on what has been a contentious matter.
You see, measuring a river's length is a bit more complicated than just whipping out a measuring tape on a map and checking how long it is. It all depends on where you start and finish measuring. They managed to trace the river all the way back to a snow-capped mountain in southern Peru and claimed that the Amazon measured 6,800km in length, making it longer than the Nile.
Pinpointing the end point of rivers can also be tricky, according to Andrew Johnston, a geographer at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Amazon Longest River Egypt Brazil Yuri Sanada Guido Gelli Andrew Johnston
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