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Berlitz recites the familiar roll call of the triangle's victims-ranging from large ships like the 425-ft. freighter Marine Sulphur Queen, which disappeared off the Dry Tortugas in 1963, to small yachts, like the ocean racer Revonoc, which vanished off Florida in 1967. He also makes much of the famous "lost patrol" incident in December 1945, when five Navy torpedo bombers on a training flight, as well as a flying boat sent out to search for them, seemed to vanish into thin air. Heightening the sense of mystery, Berlitz cites reports of strangely spinning compasses and unexplained...
...freighter captain when he was only 22, Gibson later became a senior vice president of Grace Lines, then worked briefly for an international consulting firm before being appointed head of the Maritime Administration in 1969. In that post, he helped to draft legislation that made more U.S. shipbuilders eligible for Government subsidies...
...high icebergs hover silently on the surface of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The supply boat hasn't been able to come this far north since last October. It's now the second week in July and word has come from the next town down the coast that the freighter Fort Mingan--the lifeline connecting these northern coastal villages to southern Quebec--is on its way. So now on "the white side" of St. Augustine, they've begun to prepare for its arrival. Beer bottles crack and shatter on the rocks by the landing. Water-proofed families of 14 pile...
...ship's crew, the fishermen set up a massive blockade of fishing boats to stop the freighter from leaving port...
...make repairs at sea. Technicians first smeared a paste of rice and boron (an element that absorbs neutrons) over the shields without success. Next polyethylene shields were dispatched from shore that should stop the leak. Meantime, the fishermen vowed to form a barricade of boats to bar the freighter from its home port. Other Japanese cities are no more anxious to receive it. At week's end critics were saying that the Mutsu should become the world's first nuclear Flying Dutchman, condemned to sail ceaselessly without ever putting in to land...