Word: dirks
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...Aden and the waters around the Horn of Africa, searching for suspected terrorists who may be moving equipment or people by sea or planning a maritime attack. The reduced number of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden is a "side effect of Operation Enduring Freedom," says Commander Dirk Gross at the German Defense Ministry in Berlin. Commander Jeff Breslau, a U.S. Navy spokesman in Bahrain, says that coalition forces will help ships in distress but that "the focus is not on piracy or maritime crime." The increased naval presence in the Gulf of Aden may have caused the escalation...
...wife Dolores still dives, and was once a world endurance champion. Along with Taffi and Kane, another son Kim, 29, helped recover the treasure. But the mom-and-pop hunt has had its dark side. Ten years to the day before last month's discovery, the Fishers' eldest son Dirk, 21, Dirk's wife and another diver were drowned when their salvage ship, the Northwind, capsized at night during a squall...
Danger and intrigue have brought Dirk and best pal Al Giordino (Zahn) to Africa: Pitt believes that he has finally found an iron-side battle ship which disappeared after the American Civil War (yeah, I know, in Africa—I’m still trying to figure that one out). Here’s the kicker: the legendary ship is rumored to be carrying a cargo of lost gold...
...teams up with Dirk and Al (as dictated by the mysterious laws of action-movie cliché) and soon they’re facing a high-level conspiracy, a ruthless military dictator, and the threat of unimaginable ecological disaster. As our fearless crusaders scramble to save the world from certain apocalypse, high-paced action sequences ensue. So shotty plot work aside, how does Sahara manage to undershoot even mediocre...
Case in point: halfway through the film, Dirk utters something like “Obviously the contaminants are coming from the source of the underground river.” Yes, obviously. Or my favorite: “Those barrels of toxic waste over there are being taken away to be evaporated by super-conductive solar power.” Clearly...