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Sink Now, Swim Later
Sink Now, Swim Later is the 2025 debut EP by London singer-songwriter Sienna Spiro (Liberty/Capitol, 21 February 2025): eight soul-jazz pop tracks in two halves, SINK and SWIM, with the viral ballad Maybe as centerpiece.
Sink sink
Sink sink is a five-card trick-taking card game played in Niger, a variant of Agram in which the winner of the fifth and last trick wins the game.
Sink the Bismarck!
Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white British war film directed by Lewis Gilbert, based on C. S. Forester's The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck, dramatizing the Royal Navy's 1941 hunt for the German battleship Bismarck, starring Kenneth More.
Sinkevičius Cabinet
The Sinkevičius Cabinet is Lithuania's 21st government, led by Social Democrat Mindaugas Sinkevičius, sworn in 14 July 2026 after a 72-29 Seimas vote; an LSDP-DSVL-LVŽS/AWPL coalition of 75 seats pledging Ukraine support and China normalization.
Sinkhole
Sinkhole (doline): closed ground depression with no external surface drainage, formed by collapse or subsidence into voids dissolved in karst rocks like limestone, gypsum, or salt; types include dissolution, cover-subsidence, and cover-collapse, plus human-induced forms from pumping, construction, and mining.
Sinkhole formation mechanisms and types
Sinkholes form when weak carbonic acid dissolves limestone or soil collapses into cavities; types include dissolution, suffosion, and cover-collapse sinkholes, many triggered by groundwater pumping.
Sinkhole hazard assessment and mitigation
Sinkhole hazard assessment and mitigation is the set of methods for mapping sinkhole susceptibility, confirming site risk, stabilizing ground, and spreading costs through insurance and land-use rules.
Sinkholes as tourist attractions
Sinkhole tourism develops collapsed karst landforms, from sheer-walled Chinese tiankeng to water-filled Yucatán cenotes, as managed visitor sites: lookout parks, extreme-sports venues, swimming holes, and dive locations.
Sinkholes in popular culture
Sinkholes in popular culture examines sinkholes as media spectacle, from the televised 1981 Winter Park, Florida collapse and the 2013 Seffner fatality to documentaries and NBC's La Brea.
Sinking
Sinking (沉沦) is a short story by the Chinese writer Yu Dafu, first published in 1921, about a Chinese student in Japan driven to drown himself by loneliness and national humiliation.
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano
The Sinking of ARA General Belgrano: 2 May 1982 torpedoing of the Argentine cruiser (ex-USS Phoenix, 13,645 tons) by HMS Conqueror outside the exclusion zone; 323 of 1,093 crew died, 770 survived, and the Argentine fleet withdrew to port afterward.
Sinking of HMAS Sydney
The sinking of HMAS Sydney was the loss of the Australian light cruiser with all 645 aboard on 19 November 1941, in a mutually destructive battle with the disguised German raider Kormoran off Western Australia.
Sinking of IRIS Dena
Sinking of IRIS Dena: Iranian Moudge-class frigate torpedoed by the US submarine USS Charlotte on 4 March 2026 off Galle, Sri Lanka; 87 dead, 32 rescued, first US submarine sinking since World War II.
Sinking of KM Sinar Bangun
The sinking of KM Sinar Bangun was the capsizing of an overloaded wooden ferry on Lake Toba, Indonesia, on 18 June 2018, leaving 164 missing.
Sinking of MV Sewol
Sinking of MV Sewol (세월호): South Korean ferry that capsized off Jindo on April 16, 2014 en route Incheon to Jeju, killing 304 of 476 aboard, mostly Danwon High students, after overloading, low ballast, and a sharp turn.
Sinking of MV Teratai Prima
The sinking of MV Teratai Prima was a 2009 ferry disaster in which an Indonesian ferry capsized in the Makassar Strait off Majene, West Sulawesi, leaving 313 dead or missing.
Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse
The Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was the 1941 loss of two British capital ships off Malaya. They were the first capital ships sunk by Japanese land-based aircraft on the open sea.
Sinking of the ferry Neptune
The sinking of the ferry Neptune was a 1993 maritime disaster off Miragoâne, Haiti, in which an overloaded ferry capsized, drowning hundreds to over a thousand people.
Sinking of the Filo Jet
Filo Jet, formerly Iris Jet (IMO 8962034), a catamaran ferry of Filo Denizcilik that capsized and sank off Kyrenia, northern Cyprus, on 30 August 2026 with 267 aboard, killing at least 12.
Sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise
The sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise was the capsizing of a British roll-on/roll-off ferry in 1987. It killed 193 people and reshaped maritime safety rules.
Sinking of the Montevideo Maru
The sinking of the Montevideo Maru was the 1 July 1942 loss of a Japanese transport torpedoed by USS Sturgeon, killing over 1,000 Australian prisoners and internees from Rabaul.
Sinking of the Moskva
The Moskva (ex-Slava), Slava-class Project 1164 cruiser and flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, sank 14 April 2022 after two Ukrainian Neptune missiles hit it; the largest Russian warship lost in combat since World War II.
Sinking of the MS Jan Heweliusz
The Polish ro-ro ferry Jan Heweliusz, also MS Jan Heweliusz, capsized and sank on 14 January 1993 near Rügen in a hurricane on the Świnoujście–Ystad route; 55 of 64 aboard died, Poland's deadliest shipping disaster.
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
The Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace's flagship (a former trawler acquired 1978), was sunk by French DGSE limpet mines at Auckland on 10 July 1985 under Operation Satanique, killing photographer Fernando Pereira; France later admitted the attack and paid compensation.
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania: 7 May 1915 torpedoing of the Cunard liner by German U-20 off Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing about 1,198 including 128 Americans; second explosion and munitions cargo controversy.
Sinking of the Roman fleet (255 BC)
The sinking of the Roman fleet in 255 BC was a storm off Camarina, Sicily, that destroyed most of 364 ships carrying home survivors of Rome's evacuated African army.
Sinking of the SS Andrea Doria
The sinking of the SS Andrea Doria, an Italian Line ocean liner, occurred off Nantucket in July 1956 after a collision with the Swedish motorship Stockholm; 51 died.
Sinking of the SS Arctic
Sinking of the SS Arctic: Collins Line paddle steamer lost September 27, 1854, after colliding with the French steamer Vesta in fog off Cape Race, Newfoundland; about 350 died, all women and children perished, and the disaster prompted Maury's Atlantic steam lanes.
Sinking of the SS La Bourgogne
Sinking of SS La Bourgogne: July 4, 1898 loss of the French Line steamer after collision with the barque Cromartyshire in fog off Sable Island, Nova Scotia; about 549 or more deaths, few passengers survived, followed by limitation-of-liability litigation.
Sinking of the Titanic
The sinking of the Titanic, also called the Titanic disaster, killed about 1,500 people in the North Atlantic after the liner struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912.