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...temporary protection visa, Farhad doesn't want to give his real name for fear that he might jeopardize his chances of being allowed to live in Australia permanently. But when the 31-year-old Iranian was stopped nearly five years ago with 120 other people in a boat heading for Australia, he says the rough reception from officials convinced him that he'd fled into a situation as intolerable as the one he'd left. Certain he was about to be deported, Farhad feared that if he told immigration staff about his clandestine pro-democracy activities, they might send...
...even decided that he wasn't going to get a "real job," that he would stay close to the sea instead. That meant another go-around--you guessed it--making surfboards, and then, Sears groans as he says this, "the death knell came when I bought a commercial-fishing boat. My mentor said, 'It's time to put away the toys, son.' Of course I said, 'You're wrong. No. I can do it all.' My plan was I was to fish six months a year and surf six months a year. But over the course of the next...
...fishing life was demanding. Throughout the 1970s, he would be gone for nearly five months at a stretch on his boat, The Aguero. In the 1980s, after his daughter Heather was born, he tried to fish closer to home, but that still meant leaving for 10 or 14 days, seeing his family for two or three days and heading right back out as soon as the weather allowed. What happened to the fish-six-months, surf-six-months plan? "Well, by 1976 I had to take on a winter fishery, which was herring," says Sears...
...like Rocky and said, 'Praise God. God is great.' It was just surreal. Then we just waded back into the water and"--because even at 70, you can't just immigrate to France via swimming the Channel--"swam a couple hundred meters back to the boat...
...competition and coxed a 15-year-old boy in one event and then had to test her Spanish skills by coxing a veteran rower from Mexico in another. Some C.R.A.S.H.-B competitors, like those from Harvard, are used to competing on water, but others have never been on a boat...