For more than a century and a half, the SS Pacific has remained a ghost in the Pacific Northwest waters, a ship that was ...

Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from “Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific,” by Coll Thrush (University of Washington Press, $29.95). THE FETCH OF the Pacific ...

SEATTLE — After a dozen expeditions and decades of searching, it was a couple of pieces of waterlogged wood and a fearful octopus that helped two inventive mariners find the wreckage of the SS Pacific ...