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...plastic, his right eye came with it. Now he wears goggles, which protect his glass eye and the other one, that one he cannot afford to lose. Jacqui stepped onto the Sea Hawk with her boyfriend three years back, and the 39-year-old became addicted to the solitary ocean and what she calls its “serenity.” She ditched the boyfriend and kept shrimping. These were exactly the people I wanted to spend the night with. I first met Chris and Jacqui that evening. As the boat’s motor buzzed louder...
...United Nations Environment Program's Mediterranean Action Plan, which is headquartered in Athens. About 100,000-150,000 tons of oil is spilled into the Mediterranean every year from accidents and operational dumping by ships, according to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council, which monitors ocean oil spills. Industrial waste, too, pollutes the waters. Egyptians have long called their port city, Alexandria, the jewel of the Mediterranean, but it has lately earned another reputation as "the outstanding champion of pollution," according to Mifsud. Factories dump waste water into the port's bays and into Lake Maryut...
...Steele's office, which he shares with his deckhand, Barry Moore, is a $750,000 aluminum boat, Cutloose, equipped with six beds, a shower, toilet, TV, microwave oven and satellite navigation that directs them to any of the 78 pots they've placed on the ocean floor. "Since I started, the technology's gone from a watch, compass and flagpoles to state-of-the-art stuff," says Steele, 49. Throw in quotas and faster boats, and "it's a day game now." Still, in fishing season the days start at about 3 a.m. and leave Steele exhausted. Decades...
...ocean away and many years after the Mia Farrow/Soon-Yi scandal, Allen has gotten his due revenge on the press with the remarkably pensive and sadistically funny film “Scoop...
Fowler-Finn has compared the Cambridge Public Schools to an “ocean liner” in trying to highlight the difficulties in changing the system’s course. Nolan has argued that the system is small—with only one high school—and that it can be “turned around on a dime...