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...men’s varsity lightweight crew team reportedly snuck through a second story window of the Weld Boat House with 20 dead mackerel and a five-foot eel. “The place stunk to high hell,” says Mark A. Adomanis ’07, coxswain for the men’s lightweight team and also a Crimson editor. Despite the maritime trend, lightweight rower Alex M. Phillips ’06 says he and his teammates are willing to be flexible. “The idea is to make sure the retaliation...
...Anna Steel, 24, a Coast Guard reservist from St. Louis, Mo., began navigating her 16-ft. skiff through New Orleans neighborhoods three days after the storm hit. She and her crewman brought 35 people to dry land at a highway on-ramp marked, appropriately enough, Elysian Fields. As the coxswain, Steel had extensive training in piloting the boat, so she made the decisions. "When we're out on the boat, I'm in charge. Even if my crewman is a lieutenant, which way outranks me, he reports to me. I had that authority within my first two years...
...most celebrated rescues was of the crew of the doomed oil tanker the Pendleton in 1952 off Massachusetts. In 60-ft. seas, during a snowstorm, Coast Guard officers managed to pile all 32 survivors onto a 36-ft. wooden lifeboat moments before the tanker capsized. But when the coxswain radioed his superiors for further direction, his commanders argued over the radio waves about what to do next. Instead of wasting precious time, the coxswain switched off the radio and made up his mind to head for shore. Everyone survived, and the Coast Guard crew received gold lifesaving medals. "There...
Mark A. Adomanis ’07, a government concentrator in Eliot House, is an editorial editor of The Crimson. He is proud to say in writing that he is the coxswain of the Harvard Men’s Lightweight Crew Team...
Perfection, however, lasted only three strokes. Unlike USRowing, Henley has no breakage rule enforcing a restart when equipment malfunctions. USRowing permits a restart if a boat experiences major breakage within the first 150 meters of the race, said junior Harvard coxswain Mark Adomanis, who is also a Crimson editor...