Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all the advanced equipment, Jennifer was a nerve-racking job for the Glomar's crew of about 400. The racking began early on, when the crewmen were told what the ship's real mission was and given secrecy pledges to sign. Says one crewman: "They told us that they were the same kind of documents Daniel Ellsberg had signed." During the lift of the sub, the ship heaved and groaned so much that some feared it would tear apart. Others fretted about the Soviet spy trawlers that were frequently spotted. Says Joe Rodriguez, who was recruited...
Deep Throat. The crew worked twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and they were paid generously, averaging about $1,350 a month; Rodriguez managed to save enough during the operation to open his own haircutting shop near Sacramento. There were some perks too: menus featured filet mignon, roasts and lobster tails, while the entertainment included television shows and movies on video cassettes (most popular flick: Deep Throat...
...state were foundering and inflation was making even rubber ducks a luxury item. Buckley's landlubbing wife Pat was waiting apprehensively ("If he comes through this alive, I'll kill him"). But with Europe finally visible to port and Africa looming to starboard, Buckley brought his crew content past changeless Gibraltar...
Airborne is both an immensely pleasurable, digressionary account of an Atlantic crossing and an unashamed celebration of the good life in anything but the best of times. (One of the crew aboard Cyrano even had to leave the idyl to attend the dissolution of his failed business.) About himself and his class of sailing friends, Buckley writes: "We never fancied ourselves as 'everlasting children of the mysterious sea. Rather as a different generation of 'successors,' anticipated by Joseph Conrad as 'the grown-up children of a discontented earth...
...scuba diver died in the Caribbean, and an ad executive fell overboard and drowned in the Hudson River while the boat was being used for a corporate cocktail party. The most serious mishap during Cyrano's trip to Spain was a gash suffered by one of the crew when a spinning winch handle hit him in the head...