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Using special underwater electronic location devices, sonar and TV-equipped, deep-diving, remote-controlled submersible craft, the two main U.S. search vessels, the U.S.N.S. Narragansett and the U.S.S. Conserver, at times seemed tantalizingly close to their targets. At least twice the ships picked up the distinctive "ping" of special electronic signaling devices within the boxes, which are audible up to five miles under water. The sounds were coming from a depth of about 2,500 ft. Each time, contact was lost...
William Patrick Overson Narragansett...
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...Spray. Last week 16 sailors from eight countries (five Americans, three Britishers, three Frenchmen, a New Zealander, an Australian, a Japanese, a South African and a Czech) followed the great Yankee skipper's advice. As a gunshot cracked across Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to signal the start, each sailor turned his stern on the plush attractions of old Newport, his bow toward the starting line off Goat Island and the wild Atlantic, and his thoughts to the challenge upon which he was embarking. Then each crossed the starting line and began a 27,000-mile competitive voyage...
Your Essay brings to mind a "blooper" by a Providence radio newscaster. In talking about a man missing in Narragansett Bay, the announcer said, "He is presumed drowned by the Coast Guard...