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When Australia II finally crossed the invisible line between the marker buoy and the committee boat, she was 41 sec. ahead. The spectator fleet exploded with excitement. Rubber dinghies, day sailers, party boats and ocean racers swarmed around the Down Under wonder in a cacophony of blaring horns and Klaxons. Ashore, bands of Australians waltzing Matilda and waving Aussie flags passed legions of local patriots God-blessing America and brandishing the Stars and Stripes. Despite a few ugly incidents, there was remarkably little ill will among the crowd of 10,000 on the Newport waterfront. As Australia II was guided...
...vast arc around the wreckage. Caught in the curtain of fire that rose from the growing oil slick, the aft section, containing about 100,000 tons of crude, quickly sank. Supported by a pocket of air, the bow section remained afloat vertically, like a six-story-high buoy, with an estimated 40,000 tons of oil still trapped in its tanks...
...oysters live is relatively simple: a 15-minute cruise brings Frisky to a spot over an underwater ledge that Brown and Sprague located the day before. But getting down to the oysters and getting them back to the surface are a bit more complicated. With Frisky fast to a buoy, Brown, already bundled against the chill in a sweater, a wool shirt and a quilted vest, suits up for work in rubber boots and oilskins. Sprague strips to his underwear, then wriggles into a bright red neoprene wet suit...
When experts at the Pentagon recently examined a Soviet ocean buoy obtained by American intelligence agencies through unspecified means, they were not surprised at what they found. The printed circuit boards inside the buoy, which was designed to help track U.S. submarines, were pin-for-pin compatible with those produced by Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas. T.I., needless to say, had not sold them to Moscow or indeed to any Communist bloc enterprises. Similarly, the Soviets feigned innocence a year ago, when they tried to buy sophisticated U.S. equipment that tests the strength of concrete, claiming that they needed...
...There are buoys meant to keep us in lanes going around a turn," coxswain Greg Soghtkian said yesterday. "The umpire tod me that our buoy was a little row boat I thought I was supposed to go outside of it and I went inside so he started yelling as us that we are going around a turn," at us that we are going off course and that unsettled me and the rest of the boat...