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...office, the team found two safes. The divers were able to free one, a Bank of Rome safe, with acetylene torches and hoist it on board. They also solved a question that had long haunted Gimbel: Why had the ship gone down so swiftly? Descending through the hulk, Gimbel and Diver Ted Hess cut a hole in a duct and pushed down past three decks to the generator room, squeezing through silt and broken steel plates until, astonished, they found themselves on the sea floor. The icebreaker bow of the Stockholm, Gimbel concluded, had simply "torn the guts...
...which came swimming to the boats from amongst the wreck, and some half-dozen terrapins. With this little stock of food then, we are forced to be satisfied and thanks be to God, who is ever watching over us, that it is no less. [They cast off from the hulk November 23, heading for South America...
...capacities of the medical facilities. Medevac helicopters arrived at 4:30 a.m. and minutes later took off for Jacksonville with the 21 most seriously wounded crewmen. Then the reckoning of hardware destruction began: the incinerated Prowler, packed with ten jamming transmitters and computerized receivers, was a burned and twisted hulk, a $68 million loss; two of the $36 million F-14s were totaled, three others badly damaged; four A-7 Corsair II jet fighters were inoperative; ten other jets and a helicopter were less seriously banged or gashed or charred. The aggregate loss may be upwards of $150 million...
...there it is, against the library's back wall, between two racks of magazines: hundreds and hundreds of comic books thrown together in one enormous heap that is truly awesome. Batman and Superman are there, and so are a legion of other familiar super heroes: Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk Wonder Woman, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America, and the Mighty Thor...
...people aboard clambered into lifeboats and were rescued, but not before some of them were tossed about in lifeboats by stormy 25-ft. waves for as long as 13 hours. At week's end, eight days after the fire first broke out, the still burning hulk of the Prinsendam sank, leaving behind a lifeboat to mark its place and several unsettling questions about the safety of the 65 ships that take hundreds of thousands of Americans on luxury cruises each year...