Word: crew
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...clambering on their sub or plucking their sailors from the sea. Later in the day, Soviet officials revealed that an air seal in the cooling unit of one of the vessel's nuclear reactors had ruptured. By that time, the stricken sub, an Echo II-class vessel with a crew of about 90 and believed to be carrying eight nuclear missiles, had begun crawling eastward under auxiliary diesel power, escorted by a Soviet freighter...
...Neither side is known to have lost a sub during the '70s, though the Soviets had several fatal accidents, some of the deaths caused by radiation poisoning from reactor malfunctions. Then the Soviet navy ran into a streak of bad luck. In 1983 a Charlie I class with a crew of 100 went down in the Pacific off the Kamchatka peninsula. In 1986 a Yankee I-class boat was lost east of Bermuda. With the sinking of the Mike-class vessel in April, a prototype that is believed to be the most advanced vessel built in the Soviet Union...
Another explanation -- that the problems extend beyond engineering and involve crew training -- came from an unexpected corner. In the current issue of the Soviet publication Smena, which went to press well before the Echo II accident, a Captain V. Ovchinnikov criticized in the letters column the training of submarine crews: "It will probably surprise you if I say that the nuclear installations on our submarines are operated by people who are not sufficiently trained, and some of them not trained at all. But we still set sail. The operators know and can do only 30% to 50% of what they...
...those morning people, try the Harvard and Radcliffe crew teams, which last year both finished first at the Eastern Sprints and second at the Henley Regatta in England. Although crew is a spring sport, the biggest crew event comes in the fall, when zillions of drunk and obnoxious prep school kids invade Cambridge for the Head of the Charles Regatta. No one actually watches the race, just sit on the shore and people-watch...
Duke had moved into the room early because he was on Dorm Crew the week before, and he had already claimed a bottom bunk. I was not going to object, given the nasty squint he gave me when I introduced myself. I didn't realize that he couldn't see without his contact lenses, but I felt a little more relaxed a few minutes later when I helped him escape after he had locked himself into the bathroom...