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...knowledge of sea lore and history is rich, his pace perfect, his intelligence full of energy. He differentiates each sailor with a novelist's touch. When Frenchman Raphael Dinelli's Algimouss capsized in a storm in the Southern Ocean, he managed to get on top of the inverted hull and cling there. The story of his rescue by his English competitor Pete Goss--who bravely turned back into the teeth of a force-10 gale and beat to windward until he located Dinelli--is one of those anecdotes of miracle that can be enacted only in an intense theater...
...ARIZONA G.O.P. Governor Jane Dee Hull vetoes a bill that would have prevented cities and counties from enacting gun controls...
...upside down in a kayak in San Francisco Bay, fighting panic. I'm not sure I can hold my breath much longer. I yank away at the tab that attaches a rubber spray skirt--and me--to the two-person boat, the bottom of whose hull is bobbing on the surface...
...climbers, although initially skeptical, have changed their mind about Mallory. "Just seeing his strength and his obvious tenacity," says Norton, convinces him that Mallory and Irvine "both made it and met their demise on their way down." Still, just as the discovery of the Titanic's fragmented hull stripped that timeless tragedy of some of its fascination, so the sight of Mallory's mortal remains somehow makes this larger-than-life figure more human--and more vulnerable...
...veteran of near disasters, Autissier claims she's never felt in serious danger. In fact, she was sleeping soundly when Soldini's hammer caromed off the hull of her boat. Still, she is well aware that lethal dangers are never far off. In these same southern Pacific waters in 1997, she broke off from another round-the-world race to search for a French-Canadian yachtsman who had been swamped by rough seas. He was never found. "We race boats, but we're not out to flirt with death," says Autissier. "If one of us doesn't come back...