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Sellathurai Mahalingam was standing on the bridge of the M.V. Semlow watching night settle upon the Indian Ocean when he first realized he and his crew were in trouble. The waters off East Africa were unseasonably flat and the Semlow, loaded with 850 tons of rice, food aid for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Somalia, was cutting its way north at a steady 12 knots, some 55 km from the Somali coast. Then, out of the dark, came a burst of gunfire. "I saw the flash of five to 10 shots," says Mahalingam, 58, a short Sri Lankan...
That's what first attracted Milam, the Coast Guard rescue swimmer from Alaska, to the Coast Guard. Before he joined, Milam was in the Navy. One day he and a friend took a small boat out into the ocean off San Diego. A wave flipped the boat, and it was the Coast Guard that came to rescue them. "I'm looking at the guy sitting in the door of the helicopter and I am thinking, man, what a cool job! I want that guy's job!" After 13 years, Milam has it, and he is still a true believer...
...commissioned, Energetech's plant is expected to feed into the local grid enough clean power for 500 homes. Energetech is developing several commercial-scale projects from Israel to Rhode Island. Wave energy, Denniss says, is "more consistent, predictable and concentrated than wind. It's also inexhaustible." Having studied the ocean's power all his life, he's in no doubt that it will soon be turning on our lights...
...United Nations designated last year as the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. Next year will be the International Year of the Ocean; 1999 will be the International Year of Older Persons. So far, though, 1997 is merely part of a huge list of continuing U.N. decades...
When he left England on an ocean liner in January 1939 with his school friend and colleague W.H. Auden, Isherwood was a 34-year-old talking point who had written three plays with Auden, journeyed to China and just completed the Goodbye to Berlin stories that would inspire the play I Am a Camera! and the musical Cabaret. He sailed to America trailing a blast of recriminations from his friends, who refused to believe he had discovered himself a pacifist just as his country was going to war. If we believe it, it's only because we're privy...