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...brought up so far that Egyptian officials are talking about an international tour and a permanent museum of underwater archaeology in Alexandria. Recently, as his latest Herakleion mission was winding down, Goddio, who is 54 and lives in Paris, stood in shorts and a baseball cap on the deck of his survey vessel, Princess Duda, watching as a red granite naos was hoisted on board. "We cannot identify it yet," he explains. "We hope to discover some more clues about it during the next excavation." Most archaeologists could consider the discovery the achievement of a lifetime. For Goddio...
...five-and-a-half-hour trip across the Sea of Okhotsk to Wakkanai, Japan. Chekhov, too, intended to take a boat to Japan from Sakhalin, but a raging cholera outbreak on the Japanese side caused the good doctor to cancel his trip. I soon passed out in a deck chair for the duration of the ferry ride?but not before musing that, one day, return journeys to Sakhalin might even be fashionable...
More than 50 years later, Ellsberg takes only a few seconds to recall his description of Marlon Brando as “a cannon rolling loose on the deck of a frigate” in the opening sentence of a review of A Streetcar Named Desire...
...player and voice recorder from Panasonic. The SV-AV10 ($449) can store 30 min. of MPEG-4 video or 880 digital stills on a single 64-MB memory card and display them on a 2-in. flip-out LCD screen. The whole thing is not much bigger than a deck of cards...
...only hope that the hits are there. If all else fails, if instant heroes like Kropf on Wednesday and Josh San Salvador a week ago fail to materialize, then the always daring, constantly tinkering Walsh can make one last bold move as Shakir waits in the on-deck circle...