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...shipping fortune now worth almost $300 million, is 58 years old, but he has never made a public statement other than "I have no statement to make." Since he is hardly ever photographed, he has no trouble traveling incognito, often signing on one of his ships as a crewman though of course he doesn't work at it. Ellerman's passion is rodents, on which he wrote a three-volume anatomical study, the definitive work in the field...
...MacDonald, later reported that he worked with one hand grabbing the rail "and the other grasping hands, shoulders, legs and even hair to stop tumbling bodies." As the huge ship started sinking, those who could get aboard lifeboats rowed furiously away. Others tried to swim for it. One crewman jumped in with a child under each arm. In the icy waters, mothers cradled their babies in life jackets as rescue craft circled around them. By week's end 52 persons had been found dead or were presumed drowned...
...whoops, too far. When he got to the par-five 18th hole, Nicklaus was four strokes behind, so he audaciously decided to go for an eagle. His second shot landed on an impossible rock perch at the top of a sheer drop down to the ocean. A forehanded ABC crewman was in the right place with a hand-held camera to watch him agonizingly line up and then blow his desperation third shot-and with it any chance for the top prize...
...crew was aswirl in terrifying hammerheads, blue whalers and tiger, shovelnose and white-tipped sharks-"by whatever name," the narrator said of the breed, "a fearsome brute, a perfect killing machine." But Cousteau's red-capped divers fearlessly ran off experiments right in their menacing midst. One crewman rode the back of a 60-ton whale shark. Others worked in pairs, back to back, each carrying a shark billy to fend off attackers on all flanks. When the quarry was most frenzied or aggressive, the explorers made their studies from behind steel cages lowered from the Calypso...
...nylon sails also were clearly superior to Pattie's, which were cut from an Australian fab ric called Kadron. The Aussies, who had spent upwards of $750,000 to mount their challenge, were frankly glum. "We just want to get this over with and go home," said Aussie Crewman Billy Burns...