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On the 18th of January 2007, the container ship MSC Napoli ran aground off Branscome beach, Devon. Thousands of local residents and tourists flocked to the beach to retrieve the stricken cargo, which included clothing, wine, motorbikes, beauty creams and oil paintings.

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Dunwich, England. Once a thriving port with a population of 4000, since its heyday in the Middle Ages, it has been gradually consumed by the sea. The church in the photograph had disappeared completely by the 1920s.

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Taking off from Kansai Airport, the first to be built on reclaimed land. It has sunk over 8 meters since construction began, but has survived the 1995 Kobe earthquake and a 300 km/h typhoon in 1998.